Lakshmi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit goddess of beauty and wealth; auspicious, a lucky omen
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ləcʃimʲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lakshmi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In India it is the 30th most common given name.
- KWKuwait≈1 in 4K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 16K
- USUnited States1 in 56K
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 Lakshmi 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)
- #470 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 316 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,700 named Laksmi, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kuwait, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Laksmi in ID Indonesia, লক্ষী in BD Bangladesh and Lakshi in LK Sri Lanka.
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 goddess of beauty and wealth; auspicious, a lucky omen
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Lakshmi, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lakshmi 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 | — | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 35K | listed | Laksmi | 97 |
| US United States | — | 5,890 | 1 in 56K | 5.5K | Lakshmi | 316 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #361 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Lakshi | 24 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Lakshmi | 46 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 135K | listed | লক্ষী | 20 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Lakshmi | 24 |
| KW Kuwait | #425 | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Lakshmi | 15 |
| BH Bahrain | #218 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Lakshmi | 14 |
| GY Guyana | #628 | 105 | 1 in 7.1K | 105 | Lakshmi | 5 |
| IN India | #30 | — | — | 6K | Lakshmi | 254 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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)
Lakshmi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Sanskrit: ‘sign’, ‘lucky omen’, name of the goddess of beauty, good fortune, and wealth, wife of Vishnu.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In English, pers. name, Sanskrit
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
goddess of good fortune
as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
Éxito
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In English, The Hindu goddess of wealth, the consort of Vishnu and married to Rāma (in her incarnation as Sita) and Krishna (as Radha and Rukmini).
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)
- Vijaya Lakshmi Panditb. 1900INIndian diplomat and politician (1900-1990)
- Moti Laxmi Upasikab. 1909NPnot in their usual nameNepalese poet
- Laxmi Chhayab. 1948INnot in their usual nameIndian actress (1948-2004)
- Lakshmi Mittalb. 1950INIndian steel magnate
- Lakshmi Purib. 1952INUnited Nations official
- Laxmi Murthyb. 1962INnot in their usual nameIndian journalist, editor and co-founder of Free Speech Collective
- Raai Laxmib. 1989INnot in their usual nameIndian actress and model
- Laxmi Agarwalb. 1990INnot in their usual nameIndian acid attack survivor and activist
- Lakshmi Menonb. 1996INactress
- Laxmi DubeyINnot in their usual nameIndian singer
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 60 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 1.4M | #1 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.5K | #3,512 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 439 | #3,512 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 105 | #489 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 18 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2017 | 6 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2017 | 1 | — |
| IN India | A Genealogist's Guide to Indian Names (Ellefson, 2002) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Lakshmi mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit goddess of beauty and wealth; auspicious, a lucky omen Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- How do you pronounce Lakshmi?
- A machine transcription gives /ləcʃimʲi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- What are other forms of the name Lakshmi?
- In the etymology graph, Laxmi is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Lakshmi a male or female name?
- Lakshmi 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 Lakshmi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.7 thousand people named Laksmi in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Lakshmi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,890 people named Lakshmi in 2020, about 1 in 56 thousand residents.
- How common is Lakshmi compared with other names?
- In India, Lakshmi is the 30th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lakshmiThe 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, “Lakshmi” — the 30th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.