Annapurna

given name · Latin script

Meaning: The Hindu goddess Durga

A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: SSA, 2023

Pronunciation:

Annapurna is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

  • INIndia≈1 in 4.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NPNepal≈1 in 570K
  • USUnited States1 in 682K

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 Annapurna 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)

≈300,000 people, est.

Record sources
129 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.8K (inferred from the name graph)

India, 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 Annapoorna in PK Pakistan.

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)

The Hindu goddess Durga.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Annapurna 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.

Where Annapurna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India≈300,000 est.≈1 in 4.8K23Annapurna129
BD Bangladesh≈1,300 est.≈1 in 135K—Annapurna9
US United States4881 in 682K483Annapurna127
PK Pakistan≈330 est.≈1 in 754K—Annapoorna1
ID Indonesia≈120 est.≈1 in 2.4M—Annapurna8
AO Angola≈98 est.≈1 in 388K—Annapurna1
MY Malaysia≈75 est.≈1 in 473K—Annapurna8
AE United Arab Emirates≈21 est.≈1 in 525K—Annapurna5

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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Annapurna is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Annapūrṇā, Annapūrna, Annapūrṇa

  • Russian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Аннапурна

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Annapurna is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, mtn. range, Nepal

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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)

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)
Informalनमस्ते Annapurna जी,Hi Annapurna, (English)

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)

18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Annapurna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—29K#207
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1985521—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1993512—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1983508—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020483#20,986
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1990480—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1986478—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1992468—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1987459—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1991458—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1984438—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1967413—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Annapurna mean, and where does it come from?
The Hindu goddess Durga. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Annapurna a male or female name?
Annapurna is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
In which country does Annapurna have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 302 thousand people named Annapurna in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled annapurna.
How common is the name Annapurna?
In the United States, the national register counted 488 people named Annapurna in 2020, about 1 in 682 thousand residents.

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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, “Annapurna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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