Sarasvatī
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Sarasvatī is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Sarasvatī is also written Сарасвати in Cyrillic.
- INIndia≈1 in 2.2Kas Saraswati(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 26Kas Saraswati
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 120Kfew recordsas Saraswati
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 Sarasvatī 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 136 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈650,000 named Saraswati, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sarasvatī in other scripts: Latin and Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Saraswati in IN India, US United States, MY Malaysia and 4 more and Sarasvati in ID Indonesia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sarasvatī 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 | #171 | ≈650,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 394 | Saraswati | 136 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 42K | listed | Sarasvati | 41 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Saraswati | 13 |
| US United States | — | 610as Saraswati | 1 in 545K | 610 | Saraswati | 107 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 248K | — | Saraswati | 12 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Saraswati | 10 |
| GY Guyana | — | 29as Saraswati | 1 in 26K | 29 | Saraswati | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | — | Saraswati | 2 |
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; 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Sarasvatī 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 Latvian, Hinduismā patiesības dieviete un pasaules radītāja Brahmas sieva
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sarasvatī a male or female name?
- Sarasvatī 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Sarasvatī?
- Mondonomo estimates about 645 thousand people named Saraswati in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Indonesia, Bangladesh, United States and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sarasvatī?
- In the United States, the national register counted 610 people named Saraswati in 2020, about 1 in 545 thousand residents.
- How common is Sarasvatī compared with other names?
- In India, Sarasvatī is the 171st most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sarasvatī?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sarasvat%C4%ABThe 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, “Sarasvatī” — ranked 11029th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.