Shalini
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Shalini is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 2.1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia≈1 in 3K
- GYGuyana1 in 5.6K
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 Shalini 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 275 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈490,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
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 Salini in AE United Arab Emirates.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shalini 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 | #554 | ≈490,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 64 | Shalini | 224 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #420 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Shalini | 32 |
| MY Malaysia | #735 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | 505 | Shalini | 47 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 79K | listed | Shalini | 27 |
| US United States | — | 3,303 | 1 in 101K | 3.3K | Shalini | 275 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Salini | 14 |
| GY Guyana | #918 | 135 | 1 in 5.6K | 135 | Shalini | 3 |
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: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; data.gov.my — Name Popularity Dashboard (JPN, by decade and ethnicity); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Shalini Patilb. 1931INIndian politician
- Shalini Randeriab. 1955DEProfessor of Anthropology and Sociology
- Shalini Mahtanib. 1972GBBritish CEO
- Shalini Shankarb. 1972USAmerican anthropologist
- Shalini Kumarb. 1980INIndian film actress
- Shalini Pandeyb. 1993INIndian actress
- Shalini GanendraUSBritish art curator
- Shalini RudraINresearcher
- Shalini Lalresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-7501-5018
- Shalini Singhresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-2231-2043)
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)34 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
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
- How common is the name Shalini?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,303 people named Shalini in 2020, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
- How common is Shalini compared with other names?
- In India, Shalini is the 554th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
- Is Shalini a male or female name?
- Shalini 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).
- In which country does Shalini have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 489 thousand people named Shalini in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shalini.
What do you want to know about Shalini?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shaliniThe 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, “Shalini” — the 554th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.