Kausalya
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘belonging to the Kosala people’; the name of the grandmother of both sets of princes who fight in the Mahabharata war; also the name of the mother of Rama in the Ramayana
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəəsɑɫjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kausalya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country, where it is the 67th most common given name.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 1.5Kas Kaushalya(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.6Mas Kaushalya
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 72K
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 Kausalya 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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 named Kaushalya, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kaushalya in LK Sri Lanka, US United States, AU Australia and 3 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)
Sanskrit: ‘belonging to the Kosala people’; the name of the grandmother of both sets of princes who fight in the Mahabharata war; also the name of the mother of Rama in the Ramayana. Khurshid $ Muslim name, from Persian: ‘sun’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kausalya 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 | #67 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Kaushalya | 46 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 406K | — | Kausalya | 9 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Kausalya | 18 |
| US United States | — | 126as Kaushalya | 1 in 2.6M | 124 | Kaushalya | 77 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 260K | — | Kaushalya | 50 |
| SE Sweden | — | 44as Kaushalya | 1 in 232K | 44 | Kaushalya | 4 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Kaushalya | 11 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Kaushalya | 5 |
| GY Guyana | — | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Kausalya 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 English, The eldest wife of King Dasharatha; queen of Ayodhya and the mother of Rāma; a character in Ramayana
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
a seeker Kausalya Asvalayana (५); a
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
mother of Rama (R); name of many
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)
- P. Kausalyab. 1975INP. Kausalya Nari Shakti Puraskar HIV champion
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 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 3 | #591 |
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 Kausalya mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘belonging to the Kosala people’; the name of the grandmother of both sets of princes who fight in the Mahabharata war; also the name of the mother of Rama in the Ramayana. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- How do you pronounce Kausalya?
- A machine transcription gives /kəəsɑɫjə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Kausalya a male or female name?
- Kausalya 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 Kausalya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Kaushalya in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kausalya?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 3 people named Kausalya in 2025, about 1 in 250 thousand residents.
- How common is Kausalya compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Kausalya is the 67th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kausalyaThe 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, “Kausalya” — the 67th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.