Ahalya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Name of the princess of Puru dynasty and wife of sage Gautama
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əɑɫjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ahalya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 153K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 375K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 681K
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)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 153K (inferred from the name graph)
≈150 people, est.
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)
Name of the princess of Puru dynasty and wife of sage Gautama. She was seduced by Indra, cursed by her husband and liberated by Rāma in Ramayana.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ahalya 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 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Ahalya | 8 |
| US United States | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | 5 | Ahalya | 82 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Ahalya | 3 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 681K | — | Ahalya | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Ahalya | 27 |
| AU Australia | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Ahalya | 24 |
| NO Norway | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 9 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 3 | 1 in 3.4M | 3 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | Ahalya | 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Ahalya 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.
wife of Gautama (४, R, p)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit 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)
- Ahalya Chintamanibotanist
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 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 9 | #24,969 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #50,511 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #592 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Ahalya come from?
- Name of the princess of Puru dynasty and wife of sage Gautama. She was seduced by Indra, cursed by her husband and liberated by Rāma in Ramayana. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ahalya?
- A machine transcription gives /əɑɫjə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Ahalya a male or female name?
- Ahalya 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.
- What does the name Ahalya mean?
- Recorded meaning: Name of the princess of Puru dynasty and wife of sage Gautama.
- In which country does Ahalya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 149 people named Ahalya in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ahalya.
- How common is the name Ahalya?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 3 people named Ahalya, about 1 in 3.4 million residents.
What do you want to know about Ahalya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ahalyaThe 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, “Ahalya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.