Kausalya
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kausalya is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. In Sri Lanka it is the 67th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘belonging to the Kosala people’; the name of the grandmother of both sets of princes who fight in the Mahabharata war; also the name of the mother of Rama in the Ramayana.
- LKSri Lanka1 in 1K◐
- INIndia1 in 3.4K
- USUnited States1 in 2.7M
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈177 ●
- Sources
- 81 ●
- 1 in 232K ◐
across 5 countries
335K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kaushalya in IN India, LK Sri Lanka, US United States and 15 more and কৌশল্যা in BD Bangladesh.
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●
Sanskrit: ‘belonging to the Kosala people’; the name of the grandmother of both sets of princes who fight in the Mahabharata war; also the name of the mother of Rama in the Ramayana. Khurshid $ Muslim name, from Persian: ‘sun’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #349 | 944,941 | 327K rec. | — | 92 | Kaushalya | 81 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #67 | 1,416 | 4.9K rec. | — | — | Kaushalya | 43 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 810 | 537 rec. | — | — | Kausalya | 19 |
| AU Australia | — | 789 | 848 rec. | — | — | Kaushalya | 46 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 189 | 123 rec. | — | listed | Kaushalya | 18 |
| US United States | — | 124 | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 2.7M | 124 | Kaushalya | 73 |
| FI Finland | — | 83 | 3 rec. | — | 63 | Kaushalya | 2 |
| SG Singapore | — | 48 | 56 rec. | — | — | Kaushalya | 6 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 45 | 43 rec. | — | — | Kausalya | 9 |
| SE Sweden | — | 44△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 232K | 44 | — | 3 |
| JP Japan | — | 42 | 52 rec. | — | — | Kaushalya | 10 |
| CA Canada | — | 33 | 32 rec. | — | — | Kaushalya | 10 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi43K48%
- English14K16%
- Assamese13K15%
- Telugu13K15%
- Vietnamese1.1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 42,763 | 48% |
| English | 14,174 | 16% |
| Assamese | 12,887 | 15% |
| Telugu | 12,885 | 15% |
| Vietnamese | 1,142 | 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●
Kausalya is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, The eldest wife of King Dasharatha; queen of Ayodhya and the mother of Rāma; a character in Ramayana
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
a seeker Kausalya Asvalayana (५); a
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
mother of Rama (R); name of many
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1912 | 1 |
| 1915 | 1 |
| 1918 | 3 |
| 1919 | 2 |
| 1920 | 2 |
| 1921 | 4 |
| 1922 | 3 |
| 1923 | 3 |
| 1924 | 5 |
| 1925 | 5 |
| 1926 | 1 |
| 1927 | 9 |
| 1928 | 7 |
| 1929 | 10 |
| 1930 | 7 |
| 1931 | 12 |
| 1932 | 22 |
| 1933 | 13 |
| 1934 | 18 |
| 1935 | 18 |
| 1936 | 22 |
| 1937 | 33 |
| 1938 | 23 |
| 1939 | 28 |
| 1940 | 28 |
| 1941 | 29 |
| 1942 | 44 |
| 1943 | 42 |
| 1944 | 41 |
| 1945 | 51 |
| 1946 | 49 |
| 1947 | 79 |
| 1948 | 40 |
| 1949 | 31 |
| 1950 | 66 |
| 1951 | 65 |
| 1952 | 83 |
| 1953 | 46 |
| 1954 | 67 |
| 1955 | 80 |
| 1956 | 53 |
| 1957 | 67 |
| 1958 | 105 |
| 1959 | 129 |
| 1960 | 92 |
| 1961 | 104 |
| 1962 | 154 |
| 1963 | 105 |
| 1964 | 123 |
| 1965 | 139 |
| 1966 | 108 |
| 1967 | 142 |
| 1968 | 81 |
| 1969 | 101 |
| 1970 | 121 |
| 1971 | 100 |
| 1972 | 120 |
| 1973 | 100 |
| 1974 | 97 |
| 1975 | 86 |
| 1976 | 82 |
| 1977 | 80 |
| 1978 | 65 |
| 1979 | 68 |
| 1980 | 44 |
| 1981 | 49 |
| 1982 | 42 |
| 1983 | 38 |
| 1984 | 30 |
| 1985 | 41 |
| 1986 | 49 |
| 1987 | 46 |
| 1988 | 28 |
| 1989 | 37 |
| 1990 | 31 |
| 1991 | 51 |
| 1992 | 28 |
| 1993 | 43 |
| 1994 | 33 |
| 1995 | 29 |
| 1996 | 17 |
| 1997 | 18 |
| 1998 | 6 |
| 1999 | 1 |
| 2008 | 15 |
| 2009 | 2 |
| 2010 | 15 |
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2012 | 11 |
| 2013 | 4 |
| 2014 | 3 |
| 2015 | 5 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 92 years between 1912–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- P. Kausalyab. 1975INP. Kausalya Nari Shakti Puraskar HIV champion
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 9 sources across 3 countries.
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 2026-09-12 data build · 108 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kausalya?
- We estimate roughly 177 people bear Kausalya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kausalya have the most bearers?
- Kausalya is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled kaushalya.
- How common is Kausalya compared with other names?
- In India, Kausalya is the 349th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Kausalya a male or female name?
- Kausalya 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 Kausalya mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘belonging to the Kosala people’; the name of the grandmother of both sets of princes who fight in the Mahabharata war; also the name of the mother of Rama in the Ramayana.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kausalya” — the 349th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.