Màdhu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Màdhu is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: ° Sanskrit: ‘sweet’, ‘honey’; also ‘springtime’; name of a legendary king, one of whose descendants was the god Krishna.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 89K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 111K
- AOAngola≈1 in 16K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 291 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Angola, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Madhu in IN India, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 5 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)° Sanskrit: ‘sweet’, ‘honey’; also ‘springtime’; name of a legendary king, one of whose descendants was the god Krishna.
Cited for this meaning 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Màdhu counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Madhu | 35 |
| US United States | — | 2,998 | 1 in 111K | 1.9K | Madhu | 291 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Madhu | 1 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Madhu | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 89K | listed | Madhu | 108 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Madhu | 38 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Madhu | 23 |
| IN India | #285 | — | — | 2.6K | Madhu | 255 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Màdhu mean, and where does it come from?
- ° Sanskrit: ‘sweet’, ‘honey’; also ‘springtime’; name of a legendary king, one of whose descendants was the god Krishna. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and 1 other source.
- Is Màdhu a male or female name?
- Màdhu is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Màdhu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.1 thousand people named Màdhu in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled madhu.
- How common is the name Màdhu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,998 people named Màdhu in 2020, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.
- How common is Màdhu compared with other names?
- In India, Màdhu is the 285th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/m%C3%A0dhuThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Màdhu” — the 285th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.