Anuradha
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: probably meaning ‘stream of oblations’, the name of one of the 28 asterisms at the heart of Hindu astrology
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Anuradha is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country, where it is the 100th most common given name.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 109K
- GYGuyana1 in 4.7K
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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 242 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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: probably meaning ‘stream of oblations’, the name of one of the 28 asterisms at the heart of Hindu astrology.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anuradha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | #100 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Anuradha | 59 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | 1 | Anuradha | 22 |
| US United States | — | 3,048 | 1 in 109K | 3K | Anuradha | 242 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 59K | listed | Anuradha | 17 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Anuradha | 14 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Anuradha | 25 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Anuradha | 41 |
| GY Guyana | #578 | 158 | 1 in 4.7K | 158 | Anuradha | 3 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Anuradha 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 German, weibl. Vom. indischer Herkunft,
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Anuradha Koiralab. 1949NPNepalese activist
- Anuradha Sharma Pujarib. 1964INIndian writer
- Anuradha Royb. 1967INIndian novelist, journalist and editor
- Anuradha Acharyab. 1972INentrepreneur
- Anuradha Bhattacharyyab. 1975INpoet and writer from India
- Anuradha Mehtab. 1981INIndian actress
- Anuradha Doddaballapurb. 1986INGerman-Indian cardiovascular scientist and cricketer
- Anuradha N. Naikb. 2000INIndian botanist
- Anuradha MenonINIndian actress
- Anuradha PalINIndian tabla player and composer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3K | #5,577 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 158 | #437 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 28 | #5,577 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 7 | — |
| NP Nepal | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #135 |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Anuradha mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: probably meaning ‘stream of oblations’, the name of one of the 28 asterisms at the heart of Hindu astrology. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Anuradha a male or female name?
- Anuradha 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 Anuradha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Anuradha in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anuradha.
- How common is the name Anuradha?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,048 people named Anuradha in 2020, about 1 in 109 thousand residents.
- How common is Anuradha compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Anuradha is the 100th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anuradhaThe 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, “Anuradha” — the 100th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.