Surabhi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A Pacceka Buddha whom the Bodhisatta (in his birth as Munāli) insulted’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/suɹəbi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Surabhi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.1Kas Ruby(inferred from the name graph)
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 1.3Kas Ruby
- CNChina≈1 in 1.8Kas Ruby
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 Surabhi 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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #864 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 529 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈790,000 named Ruby, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est., as Ruby
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ruby in US United States, PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom and 5 more.
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)
A Pacceka Buddha whom the Bodhisatta (in his birth as Munāli) insulted.’ Ap. f. 299; UdA. 264.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Surabhi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈790,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Ruby | 48 |
| US United States | #381 | 140,132as Ruby | 1 in 2.4K | 139K | Ruby | 529 |
| PH Philippines | #255 | ≈96,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Ruby | 143 |
| GB United Kingdom | #418 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 1.2K | Ruby | 262 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Ruby | 37 |
| AU Australia | #349 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 550 | Ruby | 214 |
| HK Hong Kong | #158 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Ruby | 57 |
| SG Singapore | #211 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Ruby | 59 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM). 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)
Surabhi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In kaw, kind of tree with fragrant flower
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Hindu mitoloģijā - dievišķā govs, kas izpilda jebkuru sava īpašnieka vēlēšanos
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Surabhi Lakshmib. 1986INIndian actress
- Surabhi Kadamb. 1992CAbadminton player
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 19 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 740 | #15,496 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 12 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #15,496 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1992 | 1 | — |
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
- Where does the name Surabhi come from?
- A Pacceka Buddha whom the Bodhisatta (in his birth as Munāli) insulted.’ Ap. f. 299; UdA. 264. Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H).
- How do you pronounce Surabhi?
- A machine transcription gives /suɹəbi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What does the name Surabhi mean?
- Recorded meaning: A Pacceka Buddha whom the Bodhisatta (in his birth as Munāli) insulted.’
- Is Surabhi a male or female name?
- Surabhi 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 Surabhi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 789 thousand people named Ruby in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Surabhi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 140,132 people named Ruby in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Surabhi compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Surabhi is the 158th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/surabhiThe 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, “Surabhi” — the 158th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.