Kartini
given name · Indonesian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kartini is a given name, most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is the 13th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Indonesian and English, written in the Latin script.
- IDIndonesia1 in 77◐
- MYMalaysia1 in 9.1K
- SGSingapore1 in 62K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈69 ●
- Sources
- 134 ●
- 1 in 309K ◐
across 3 countries
6.7K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
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●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | #13 | 1,180,261 | 2.2K rec. | — | 115K | Kartini | 134 |
| MY Malaysia | #712 | 7,167 | 3.5K rec. | — | — | Kartini | 32 |
| US United States | — | 217 | 300 rec. | — | — | Kartini | 41 |
| AU Australia | — | 186 | 219 rec. | — | 1 | Kartini | 34 |
| RU Russia | — | 179 | 1 rec. | — | — | Kartini | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | 174 | 182 rec. | — | — | Kartini | 27 |
| PH Philippines | — | 77 | 61 rec. | — | — | Kartini | 8 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 56△ | 19 rec. | 1 in 309K | 56 | Kartini | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 27 | 23 rec. | — | — | Kartini | 8 |
| DE Germany | — | 26 | 32 rec. | — | — | Kartini | 16 |
| SE Sweden | — | 11 | — | 1 in 928K | 11 | — | — |
| HK Hong Kong | — | 8 | 17 rec. | — | — | Kartini | 3 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Indonesian954K80%
- English231K19%
- Malay2.7K1%
- Hindi1821%
- Swahili1401%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Indonesian | 954,359 | 80% |
| English | 231,123 | 19% |
| Malay | 2,735 | 1% |
| Hindi | 182 | 1% |
| Swahili | 140 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Kartini 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 Latvian, Kartupelis ("Solanum tuberosum")
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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●
- Kartinib. 1879IDIndonesian heroine, feminist (1879–1904)
- Indriana KartiniAUresearcher
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 16 sources across 7 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 · 17 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kartini?
- We estimate roughly 69 people bear Kartini (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kartini have the most bearers?
- Kartini is most frequently recorded in Indonesia, where it is most often spelled kartini.
- How common is Kartini compared with other names?
- In Indonesia, Kartini is the 13th most common given name of 232,466 given names recorded there.
- Is Kartini a male or female name?
- Kartini 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.
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About this data
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, “Kartini” — the 13th most common given name in Indonesia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.