Aruna

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Aruna is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Son of Kashyapa by Vinata, charioteer of Surya.

rarermore common
  • KZKazakhstan1 in 1.6K◐
  • INIndia1 in 3.4K
  • NGNigeria1 in 18K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈20K ●

across 9 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
240 ●

447K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.6K ◐

Kazakhstan

Spellings & scripts●

ArunaLatin · Hindi●546K records
АрунаCyrillic · Kazakh●35K records
అరుణTelugu · Telugu●2 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Аруна in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Son of Kashyapa by Vinata, charioteer of Surya.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Aruna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#351944,830393K rec.—59Aruna185
KZ Kazakhstan#42812,03116K rec.1 in 1.6K12KАруна32
BR Brazil—4,1420 rec.1 in 51K4.1KAruna1
NG Nigeria—4,0436.3K rec.——Aruna38
US United States—3,28822K rec.1 in 101K3.3KAruna240
GB United Kingdom—2,1991.7K rec.—listedAruna78
RU Russia—2,0791.2K rec.—#2,021Аруна75
AU Australia—1,8221.8K rec.—1Aruna104
MY Malaysia—1,043532 rec.——Aruna23
CA Canada—744741 rec.—1Aruna49
ID Indonesia—502304 rec.——Aruna55
KG Kyrgyzstan—42723 rec.——Аруна9

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi546K52%
  • English151K14%
  • Telugu119K11%
  • Assamese119K11%
  • Portuguese23K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi546,49852%
English150,78314%
Telugu119,24611%
Assamese119,24311%
Portuguese23,3282%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Aruna is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name32K records spelled Aruna8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, India, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Arunã, Arúna, Aruṇa, Arùna, Aruṇā

  • Sinhala given name25K records spelled Aruna9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom

    Also written Arana, අරුණ, අරණ, අරුණි, Aruṇā

  • a separate given name5.2K records spelled Aruna6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Sri Lanka

    Also written Aruṇa, Aruṇā, Arunà, Arūṇa, Arunā

  • Arabic given name3.9K records spelled Aruna4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, United States

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew

    Also written ארונה, Arona

46 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●

Aruna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Bhuvanegvari (N); Kali (N); Lalita (N); a

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • Indra (५); name of many men (P); Natega

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • In English, Sense; the dawn

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In German, weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • name of a god; radiance

    as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India

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.

Over time●

01K2K3K1900192019401960198020002.4K · 1983

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Aruna in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1900–2017
Yearrecords
19001
19011
19141
19161
19172
19182
19192
19209
19211
19222
19237
19247
19258
19262
19276
19286
192912
19308
193111
193229
193321
193419
193528
193623
193745
193848
193956
194062
194178
1942134
1943115
1944149
1945207
1946242
1947283
1948196
1949227
1950361
1951346
1952414
1953354
1954498
1955577
1956629
1957667
1958824
1959969
1960872
19611,117
19621,385
19631,271
19641,463
19651,474
19661,467
19671,764
19681,528
19691,504
19701,699
19711,646
19721,898
19731,648
19741,680
19751,826
19762,029
19771,945
19782,093
19791,988
19801,767
19812,024
19822,129
19832,374
19842,302
19852,281
19862,188
19872,198
19882,038
19891,882
19901,788
19911,831
19921,776
19931,943
19941,683
19951,370
1996808
1997786
1998485
199929
20001
20011
20021
20051
20074
2008211
20091
2010204
201132
2012121
201377
2014117
201578
20161
20173

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 102 years between 1900–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19001920194019601980Aruna Asaf Ali, b. 1909Aruna Vasudev, b. 1936Aruna Lama, b. 1945Aruna Irani, b. 1952Aruna Ramchandra Dhere, b. 1957Aruna Miller, b. 1964Aruna Shields, b. 1978Aruna Dindane, b. 1980

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●

Attested in 64 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Aruna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—119K#23
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—7.1K#344
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20224.1K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—4.1K#3,125
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.3K#5,083
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20202.6K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020172#5,083
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—155#4,224
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—90#8,297
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—88#17,494
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 2025202585#509
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)202482#832

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 378 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Aruna?
We estimate roughly 20 thousand people bear Aruna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Aruna have the most bearers?
Aruna is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled aruna.
Where is Aruna most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aruna is densest in Kazakhstan — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is Aruna compared with other names?
In India, Aruna is the 351st most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Aruna a male or female name?
Aruna 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.
What does the name Aruna mean?
Recorded meaning: Son of Kashyapa by Vinata, charioteer of Surya.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Aruna” — the 351st most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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