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Arundhati

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Arundhati has been given to 13 babies in the U.S. since 2004. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2017, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Arundhati, 2017

1 in 447,000

Arundhati over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arundhati: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Arundhati means

Arundhati is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Arundhati is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 13 girls were recorded with the name Arundhati between 2004 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2017; its best national rank was #11,757 in 2017.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Arundhati?

Arundhati had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 447,000
8 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 216,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
309,934 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arundhati sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 309,934 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arundhati. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arundhatis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arundhati was born before 2017 — so the typical Arundhati is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
61.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
13
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 61.5% of all recorded uses (8).

Is Arundhati rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2017 (8)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,757
2017

Arundhati by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,757
2017
Peak year
2017
8 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
13
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Arundhati

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Arundhati

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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