Gayathri

Girls' name

Variant of Gayatri

Gayathri has been given to 133 babies in the U.S. since 1997. 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 2006, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Gayathri, 2022

1 in 677,000

Gayathri over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gayathri: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Gayatri

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gayathri means

Gayathri is a variant of Gayatri.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Gayathri is used in Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Gayathri → Gayatri. The family’s meaning is “to sing”, recorded in the naming reference for Gayatri.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gayatri.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 133 girls were recorded with the name Gayathri between 1997 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2006; its best national rank was #8,889 in 2006.

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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Gayathri?

Gayathri had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022: 1 in 677,000; 5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only: 1 in 328,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 469,366 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Gayathri 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gayathri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gayathris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gayathri was born before 2005 — so the typical Gayathri is around 20 today.

Median birth year: 2005; About 20 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 69.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 96.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 133; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 69.9% of all recorded uses (93).

Is Gayathri 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2006 (13)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 26.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,889; 2006

Where Gayathri is used

Across 1910–2025, Gayathri was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 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. Gayathri has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gayathri around the world

Where Gayathri 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
#5,927
in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Gayathri 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: #8,889; 2006
Peak year: 2006; 13 that year
First recorded: 1997
Last recorded: 2022
All-time count: 133
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Gayathri

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

Gayatri Gayane Gayanne Gaytha Gaynor Gaylynn Gaynel Gaylia Gaylon Gaylin Gayleen Gaylyn Gaylee Gaynelle Gaylen Gayna Anushri Gaylan Gayann Yahri Mishri Kahri Naiahri Gaylynne

Sibling names for Gayathri

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

For a sister

Taniya Melia Jazmyne Jayna Nyasia Tayla Lanie Estefany

For a brother

Paulo Yair Lavon Tye Deshaun Oswaldo Nathen Britton

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