Urmila

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Urmila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Sanskrit ऊर्मिला (ūrmilā).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 251K(measured from records)
  • NPNepal≈1 in 1.8K
  • GYGuyana1 in 15K

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)

≈17,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
157 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Nepal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

UrmilaLatin(measured from records)
УрмилаCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

From Sanskrit ऊर्मिला (ūrmilā).

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Urmila 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.

Where Urmila is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NP Nepal—≈17,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Urmila37
BD Bangladesh—≈5,500 est.≈1 in 30KlistedUrmila20
US United States—1,3241 in 251K1.3KUrmila157
ID Indonesia—≈600 est.≈1 in 449K—Urmila34
JP Japan—≈320 est.≈1 in 395K—Urmila17
KW Kuwait—≈73 est.≈1 in 41K—Urmila5
QA Qatar—≈68 est.≈1 in 36K—Urmila5
GY Guyana—511 in 15K51Urmila2
IN India#130——44Urmila153

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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Urmila is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Urmilā

19 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Urmila 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 English, The daughter of King Janaka of Mithila and the younger sister of Sita. She was the wife of Lakshmana in Ramayana.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

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 23 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Urmila
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)196716K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)197215K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)197015K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198314K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)197514K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)197614K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)197114K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)196214K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)197714K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)196414K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198213K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)196913K—

Reference works 1

  • 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 Urmila mean, and where does it come from?
From Sanskrit ऊर्मिला (ūrmilā). Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Urmila a male or female name?
Urmila 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 Urmila have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Urmila in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled urmila.
How common is the name Urmila?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,324 people named Urmila in 2020, about 1 in 251 thousand residents.
How common is Urmila compared with other names?
In India, Urmila is the 130th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.

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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, “Urmila” — the 130th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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