Lakshmi

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Lakshmi is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 5th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and Assamese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit goddess of beauty and wealth; auspicious, a lucky omen.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 223◐
  • MYMalaysia1 in 31K
  • IDIndonesia1 in 32K

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

≈6.2K ●

across 7 countries

#141 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
289 ●

2.9M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 7.1K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

LakshmiLatin · Hindi●6M records
ЛакшмиCyrillic · Russian●75 records
ลักขThai · Thai●15 records
לקשמיHebrew · Hebrew●12 records
ᲚაკშმიGeorgian · Georgian●11 records

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Laksmi in ID Indonesia, MX Mexico, PE Peru, লক্ষী in BD Bangladesh, Lakshi in LK Sri Lanka and Лакшми in RU Russia.

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 goddess of beauty and wealth; auspicious, a lucky omen

Sources 1

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Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Lakshmi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#514,600,8162.9M rec.—6KLakshmi237
US United States—5,45139K rec.1 in 61K5.5KLakshmi289
AU Australia—3,3143.3K rec.—1Lakshmi100
GB United Kingdom—3,2512.3K rec.—listedLakshmi81
ID Indonesia—2,8511.4K rec.—listedLaksmi90
MY Malaysia—2,0901.7K rec.——Lakshmi43
CA Canada—984969 rec.—1Lakshmi76
SG Singapore#758640999 rec.——Lakshmi56
BD Bangladesh—446108 rec.—listedলক্ষী19
AE United Arab Emirates—397439 rec.——Lakshmi55
LK Sri Lanka#3713681.1K rec.——Lakshi25
DE Germany—331293 rec.—listedLakshmi59

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Languages●

  • Hindi6M42%
  • Assamese5.3M37%
  • English1.5M10%
  • Telugu1M7%
  • 188K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi6,044,94342%
Assamese5,265,57737%
English1,473,27510%
Telugu1,000,0787%
188,2171%

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◐

Lakshmi is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name204K records spelled Lakshmi2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Lakshmī

  • Spanish given name13K records spelled Lakshmi5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Mexico, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Lakshmī

  • Hindi given name4.7K records spelled Lakshmi29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, English, Kannada

    Also written Lekshmi, Lakshhmi, லெட்சுமி, லக்ஷ்மி, லட்சுமி

  • French given name2.5K records spelled Lakshmi5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, France, United States, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Lakshmî, Lâkshmî, Lakshmī

  • a separate given name308 records spelled Lakshmi2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Lákshmï

27 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●

Lakshmi 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.

  • Sanskrit: ‘sign’, ‘lucky omen’, name of the goddess of beauty, good fortune, and wealth, wife of Vishnu.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, pers. name, Sanskrit

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • goddess of good fortune

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

  • Éxito

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In English, The Hindu goddess of wealth, the consort of Vishnu and married to Rāma (in her incarnation as Sita) and Krishna (as Radha and Rukmini).

    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.

Over time●

010K20K30K40K19001920194019601980200031K · 1993

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Lakshmi in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
189929
19004
19013
19071
19081
19092
19113
19124
19138
191416
19159
191625
191742
191866
191983
1920153
1921126
1922175
1923375
1924304
1925240
1926357
1927397
1928375
1929644
1930504
1931770
19321,011
1933795
19341,198
19351,054
19361,453
19371,472
19381,339
19391,892
19401,668
19412,269
19422,676
19432,245
19443,071
19452,696
19463,830
19473,709
19483,116
19493,699
19503,720
19514,415
19525,134
19534,083
19545,284
19555,005
19566,216
19575,857
19586,391
19598,321
19606,944
19618,720
196210,337
19639,010
196410,304
19659,693
196611,744
196711,936
196811,350
196911,913
197011,760
197113,318
197214,202
197313,063
197412,069
197513,466
197615,264
197716,141
197816,621
197916,570
198015,752
198119,174
198221,538
198323,415
198422,640
198523,720
198625,237
198725,469
198823,647
198925,856
199026,143
199127,937
199230,045
199331,137
199427,994
199523,073
199615,394
199715,599
19988,584
1999559
200037
200117
200222
20035
20052
20064
200765
20081,023
200938
20101,350
2011181
2012447
2013655
20141,199
2015851
20165
20176

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 112 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, b. 1900Moti Laxmi Upasika, b. 1909Laxmi Chhaya, b. 1948Lakshmi Mittal, b. 1950Lakshmi Puri, b. 1952Laxmi Murthy, b. 1962Raai Laxmi, b. 1989Laxmi Agarwal, b. 1990Lakshmi Menon, b. 1996

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 59 sources across 32 countries.

Official registers attesting Lakshmi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—1.4M#1
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—91K#7
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—6K#1,389
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.5K#3,512
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020439#3,512
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—285#4,060
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—169#4,025
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—120#4,841
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025105#489
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—72#9,593
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202072—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—41#2,957

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 · 455 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Lakshmi?
We estimate roughly 6.2 thousand people bear Lakshmi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Lakshmi have the most bearers?
Lakshmi is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled lakshmi.
How common is Lakshmi compared with other names?
In India, Lakshmi is the 5th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Lakshmi a male or female name?
Lakshmi 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 Lakshmi mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit goddess of beauty and wealth; auspicious, a lucky omen
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About this data

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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, “Lakshmi” — the 5th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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