Ratna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: gift; present; wealth; desirable; jewel; the best of its kind; magnet (The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Ratna is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Thailand it is the 94th most common given name. Ratna is also written รัตนา in Thai, রতন in Bengali and רטן in Hebrew.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 11K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 29Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ratna itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈530,000 named Ratan, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Ratna in other scripts: Latin, Thai, Bengali and 5 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ratan in IN India, BD Bangladesh, QA Qatar and 1 more, รัตนา in TH Thailand and Rathna in LK Sri Lanka.
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)gift; present; wealth; desirable; jewel; the best of its kind; magnet
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ratna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #179 | ≈530,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 2.7K | Ratan | 183 |
| TH Thailand | #94 | ≈99,000 est. | ≈1 in 726 | register #532,015 | รัตนา | 150 |
| BD Bangladesh | #125 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | listed | Ratan | 64 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Ratna | 32 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #490 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Rathna | 24 |
| US United States | — | 1,200 | 1 in 277K | 3.7K | Ratna | 169 |
| QA Qatar | #430 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Ratan | 11 |
| BH Bahrain | #270 | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Ratan | 9 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Ratna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, jewel, A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, weibl. Vom. indischer Herkunft (»die
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
name of a god; a precious jewel
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
Joya
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In English, A unisex given name from Sanskrit used commonly in India.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ratna Mohinib. 1904IDIndonesian dancer (1904–1988)
- Amala Dlaminib. 1995USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and rapper (born 1995)
- Ratna DebnathINIndian political candidate and activist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ratna mean, and where does it come from?
- gift; present; wealth; desirable; jewel; the best of its kind; magnet Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- What are other forms of the name Ratna?
- In the etymology graph, Ratan and Rathna are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Ratna a male or female name?
- Ratna is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- Which countries have the most people named Ratna?
- Mondonomo estimates about 532 thousand people named Ratan in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Thailand, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Sri Lanka; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Ratna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,200 people named Ratna in 2020, about 1 in 277 thousand residents.
- How common is Ratna compared with other names?
- In India, Ratna is the 179th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ratna?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ratnaThe 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, “Ratna” — ranked 2491st in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.