Maitreyi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Name of a Vedic philosopher in Ancient India, a wife of the sage Yajnavalkya
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/meɪtɹəji/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maitreyi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- USUnited States≈1 in 3.7Mas Maitreyee(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- PAPanama≈1 in 944K
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 Maitreyi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
≈96 named Maitreyee, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maitreyee in US United States, AU Australia, AT Austria and মৈত্রেয়ী in BD Bangladesh.
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)
Name of a Vedic philosopher in Ancient India, a wife of the sage Yajnavalkya.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maitreyi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | মৈত্রেয়ী | 1 |
| US United States | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | 5 | Maitreyee | 75 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 4.3M | — | Maitreyi | 20 |
| AU Australia | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Maitreyee | 21 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Maitreyi | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 829K | — | Maitreyee | 4 |
| SE Sweden | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Maitreyi | 3 |
| PA Panama | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 944K | — | Maitreyi | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Maitreyi Devib. 1914INBengali poet and novelist (1914–1989)
- Maitreyi Pushpab. 1944INIndian writer
- Maitreyi Ramakrishnanb. 2001CACanadian actress
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1998 | 5 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #593 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maitreyi mean, and where does it come from?
- Name of a Vedic philosopher in Ancient India, a wife of the sage Yajnavalkya. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Maitreyi?
- A machine transcription gives /meɪtɹəji/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Maitreyi a male or female name?
- Maitreyi 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 Maitreyi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 96 people named Maitreyee in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Maitreyi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maitreyi is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though Bangladesh holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Maitreyi?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Maitreyi in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Maitreyi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maitreyiThe 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, “Maitreyi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.