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Gauri

#7,249 in 2025Girls' name

White, pale, yellow

Gauri has been given to 594 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #7,249 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Gauri, 2025

1 in 221,000

Gauri over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gauri: meaning, origin, and history

White, pale, yellow

Sanskrit

What Gauri means

Gauri means “white, pale, yellow”.

Origin, language, and formation

Gauri is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Gauri comes through Sanskrit गौरी.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Gauri is pronounced /ˈɡaʊɹi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 594 girls were recorded with the name Gauri between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 2006; its best national rank was #3,605 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,332 in 2020 to #7,249 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,820 in 2015 to #7,249 in 2025.

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 Gauri?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,249
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gauri 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 2025 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gauri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gauris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gauri was born before 2009 — so the typical Gauri is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
594
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 40.2% of all recorded uses (239).

Is Gauri 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
−1,569
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+83
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−429
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
35.7%
Peak was 2006 (42)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,605
2005

Spellings of Gauri

Gauri is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 66.7% against Gauri's 0.05%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gauri is used

Across 1910–2025, Gauri was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 333,454 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gauri has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gauri around the world

Where Gauri ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1998–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gauri by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,249
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 83
Best rank ever
#3,605
2005
Peak year
2006
42 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
594
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Gauri

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

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Sibling names for Gauri

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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