Godavari

loc · Latin script

Meaning: river, India

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Godavari is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 5.4M(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 750Kas Godawari

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Godavari 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.

Czechia (measured from records)

2 people

Sources
55 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 5.4M (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

river, India

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Godavari 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.

Where Godavari is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia21 in 5.4M2——
GY Guyana1as Godawari1 in 750K1—1
IN India——286Godavari55

2 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Godavari is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Godāvarī

29 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Godavari 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 English, A major river in South India which flows through Maharashtra, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

    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)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Godavari
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—6K#821
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19455—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19574—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19444—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19743—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19653—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19643—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19633—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19583—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—2#44,457
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)20072—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19812—

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

What does the name Godavari mean, and where does it come from?
river, India Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
In which country does Godavari have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 2 people named Godavari, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Godavari most common?
Godavari is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.4 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Godavari?
In Czechia, the national register counted 2 people named Godavari, about 1 in 5.4 million residents.

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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, “Godavari”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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