Madhavi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Pradyumna (P)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries
/mɑdɑvi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Madhavi is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 131K(measured from records)
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 6K
- AOAngola≈1 in 23K
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 Madhavi 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)
- Record sources
- 258 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Madhobi 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)Pradyumna (P)
Cited for this meaning 1
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Madhavi 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 | #690 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Madhavi | 24 |
| US United States | — | 2,540 | 1 in 131K | 2.5K | Madhavi | 258 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Madhobi | 18 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Madhavi | 1 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 192K | — | Madhavi | 12 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Madhavi | 31 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Madhavi | 20 |
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. 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)Madhavi 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 German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)- Madhavi Sardesaib. 1962INIndian academic
- Madhavi KrishnanINIndian British physical chemist
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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
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
- What does the name Madhavi mean, and where does it come from?
- Pradyumna (P) Recorded by Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names.
- How do you pronounce Madhavi?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑdɑvi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Madhavi a male or female name?
- Madhavi 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 Madhavi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Madhavi in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled madhavi.
- How common is the name Madhavi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,540 people named Madhavi in 2020, about 1 in 131 thousand residents.
- How common is Madhavi compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Madhavi is the 690th 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/madhaviThe 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, “Madhavi” — the 690th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.