Narayani
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Narayani is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. Recorded meaning: lord of the Narmada river.
- NPNepal≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 150K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 205K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
≈810 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
lord of the Narmada river.
Sources 1
- The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
Where in the world(measured from records)
Narayani 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Narayani | 19 |
| US United States | 184 | 1 in 1.8M | 184 | Narayani | 79 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Narayani | 30 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Narayani | 11 |
| JP Japan | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | — | Narayani | 7 |
| AU Australia | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 993K | 1 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 8 | 1 in 734K | 8 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 5 | 1 in 150K | 5 | — | — |
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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Narayani Devi VermaINIndian freedom fighter
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 18 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Narayani mean, and where does it come from?
- lord of the Narmada river. Recorded by The Penguin book of Hindu names for boys.
- Is Narayani a male or female name?
- Narayani 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 Narayani have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 813 people named Narayani in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled narayani.
- How common is the name Narayani?
- In the United States, the national register counted 184 people named Narayani in 2020, about 1 in 1.8 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/narayaniThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Narayani”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.