Arundhati
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The wife of the sage Vasishtha, celebrated for her virtue
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Arundhati is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 45K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 942K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.2Mfew records
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 Arundhati 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)
- Record sources
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 45K (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Arundhuti 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)The wife of the sage Vasishtha, celebrated for her virtue.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Arundhati 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 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 45K | 2 | Arundhati | 131 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 138K | listed | Arundhuti | 6 |
| US United States | 353 | 1 in 942K | 350 | Arundhati | 164 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 177K | — | Arundhati | 22 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 773K | — | Arundhati | 4 |
| SG Singapore | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 610K | — | Arundhati | 12 |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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)Arundhati 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 Portuguese, Arundhati (wife of Vasishtha)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Arundhati Mukherjeeb. 1923INIndian actress
- Arundhati Devib. 1925INIndian actress, director and writer
- Arundhati Ghoseb. 1939INIndian diplomat
- Arundhati Bhattacharyab. 1956INIndian banker
- Arundhati Virmanib. 1957INIndian historian
- Arundhati Royb. 1961INIndian novelist, essayist, and activist
- Arundhati Kirkireb. 1980INcricketer
- Arundhati Pantawaneb. 1989INbadminton player
- Arundhati Reddyb. 1997INIndian woman cricketer
- Arundhati Bakshib. 2000USresearcher
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Arundhati mean, and where does it come from?
- The wife of the sage Vasishtha, celebrated for her virtue. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Arundhati a male or female name?
- Arundhati is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Arundhati have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Arundhati in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arundhati.
- How common is the name Arundhati?
- In the United States, the national register counted 353 people named Arundhati in 2020, about 1 in 942 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arundhatiThe 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, “Arundhati”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.