Radha
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a mythological woman who was a favorite of the god Krishna
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 30 countries · latest register: SCB, 2020
Radha is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Malaysia it is the 63rd most common given name.
- INIndia≈1 in 810(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 88K
- SESweden1 in 329as Frida
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 Radha 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #684 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 809 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Farida in EG Egypt, BD Bangladesh, AZ Azerbaijan and 1 more, Faridah in MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia, Frida in NO Norway, SE Sweden and Фарида in KG Kyrgyzstan, TJ Tajikistan.
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)a mythological woman who was a favorite of the god Krishna
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Radha 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #108 | ≈1,800,000 est. | ≈1 in 809 | 147K | Radha | 223 |
| TZ Tanzania | #346 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 676 | 1 | Farida | 24 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | listed | Faridah | 101 |
| BD Bangladesh | #141 | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Farida | 55 |
| EG Egypt | #397 | ≈70,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | listed | Farida | 95 |
| SE Sweden | — | 30,990as Frida | 1 in 329 | 31K | Frida | 23 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #105 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 430 | 3 | Farida | 45 |
| MY Malaysia | #63 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 8.1K | Faridah | 74 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #202 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 611 | listed | Фарида | 8 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #125 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 602 | — | Фарида | 19 |
| NO Norway | — | 9,435as Frida | 1 in 579 | 33K | Frida | 9 |
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; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results. 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)Radha 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, Hindu goddess of love and devotion, Grand Consort of god Krishna, Avatar of Lakshmi.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
name of a man (K)
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Afortunada
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)- Radha Kumud Mukherjeeb. 1884INIndian historian (1884–1963)
- Radha Krishna Choudharyb. 1921INIndian historian (1921–1985)
- Radha Burnierb. 1923INIndian actress, American academic (1923–2013)
- Radha Krishna Mainalib. 1946NPNepalese politician
- Radha Ravib. 1952INIndian actor
- Radha Kumarb. 1953INIndian writer
- Radhab. 1965INIndian actress popular in the 80s and early 90s
- Radha Paudelb. 1973NPNepalese writer
- Radha BharadwajINIndian film director
- Radha SthanakiyaGBactress
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)55 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 113K | #27 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 101 | #8,476 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 84 | #8,656 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 32 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 24 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2017 | 10 | — |
| IN India | A Genealogist's Guide to Indian Names (Ellefson, 2002) | — | — | — |
| IN India | Sunama Sarit — Sanskrit Names (2020) | — | — | — |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Is Radha a male or female name?
- Radha is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: India (India Names Dataset), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- What does the name Radha mean, and where does it come from?
- a mythological woman who was a favorite of the god Krishna Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India.
- In which country does Radha have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 million people named Radha in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled radha.
- How common is the name Radha?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 30,990 people named Frida, about 1 in 329 residents.
- How common is Radha compared with other names?
- In India, Radha is the 108th most common given name of 3,760,348 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/radhaThe 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, “Radha” — the 108th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.