Name Awesome

Gowri

Girls' name

Form of Gauri

Gowri has been given to 123 babies in the U.S. since 1999. 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 11 recorded.

Babies named Gowri, 2023

1 in 663,000

Gowri over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gowri: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Gauri

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gowri means

Gowri is a form of Gauri.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Gowri is used in Tamil and Kannada.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Gowri → Gauri. The family’s meaning is “white, pale, yellow”, recorded in the naming reference for Gauri.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gauri.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 123 girls were recorded with the name Gowri between 1999 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2006; its best national rank was #10,142 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.

How common is Gowri?

Gowri had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gowri 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gowri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gowris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gowri was born before 2008 — so the typical Gowri is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
53.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
123
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 53.7% of all recorded uses (66).

Is Gowri 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 (11)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,142
2006

Spellings of Gowri

Gowri is not the most common spelling — Lori is, with 76.4% against Gowri's 0.03%.

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.

Gowri around the world

Where Gowri 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
    2010–2024
    #4,193
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1990–1990
    #691
    in 1990

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

Gowri 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
#10,142
2006
Peak year
2006
11 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
123
Count in 2025
Under 5

Sibling names for Gowri

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

Explore around Gowri

Top names of 2006, Gowri's peak yearThe 2000s in fullOther names that peaked in 2006Girls' names starting with GTamil Girl NamesTamil Names