Kasturi
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kæstʊɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kasturi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
- KWKuwait≈1 in 69K
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 Kasturi 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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kasthuri in LK Sri Lanka, SG Singapore.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kasturi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 78K | listed | Kasturi | 71 |
| MY Malaysia | #966 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 596 | Kasturi | 38 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #403 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Kasthuri | 31 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Kasturi | 14 |
| US United States | — | 290 | 1 in 1.1M | 403 | Kasturi | 167 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Kasthuri | 16 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Kasturi | 3 |
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: data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the id-github-names register. 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)
Kasturi is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Indonesian, abelmosk, annual hibiscus, musk mallow (Abelmoschus moschatus)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kaw, civet
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Malay, musk
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)
- Kasturi Rajadhyakshab. 1923INIndian physician and community worker
- Kasturi Ramaswamib. 1929INUmpire
- Kasturi Lal Choprab. 1933INIndian material physicist
- Kasturi Shankarb. 1950INIndian Kannada singer (born 1950)
- Kasturi Pattanaikb. 1966INIndian dancer and choreographer
- Kasturi Chellaraja Wilsonb. 1969LKSri Lankan activist, accountant, financial expert, businesswoman and former basketball player
- Kasturi Radhakrishnanb. 2001MYbadminton player
- Kasturi Laxmi NrusihamINIndian scientist
- Kasturi RoyUSresearcher
- Kasturi SenINIndian geologist
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 24 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 251 | #30,168 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 39 | #30,168 |
| MY Malaysia | data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity) | 1990 | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- How do you pronounce Kasturi?
- A machine transcription gives /kæstʊɹi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Kasturi a male or female name?
- Kasturi 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 Kasturi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.4 thousand people named Kasturi in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kasturi.
- How common is the name Kasturi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 290 people named Kasturi in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Kasturi compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Kasturi is the 403rd most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kasturi?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kasturiThe 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, “Kasturi” — the 403rd most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.