Sarayu
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Name of a river in North India that flows through Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɑɹiu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sarayu is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
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)
Name of a river in North India that flows through Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sarayu counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 599 | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 33 | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 3 | — |
| CA Canada | — | 1 | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
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 14 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 599 | #18,083 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 41 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 39 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 39 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 37 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 36 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 33 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 33 | #88,550 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 32 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 31 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sarayu mean, and where does it come from?
- Name of a river in North India that flows through Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Sarayu?
- A machine transcription gives /sɑɹiu/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Sarayu a male or female name?
- Sarayu is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Sarayu have the most bearers?
- Sarayu is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Sarayu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sarayuThe 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, “Sarayu”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.