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Lakshmi

#6,452 in 2025Girls' name

Mark, sign

Lakshmi has been given to 877 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #6,452 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 56 recorded.

Babies named Lakshmi, 2025

1 in 184,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lakshmi: meaning, origin, and history

Mark, sign

Sanskrit

What Lakshmi means

Lakshmi means “mark, sign”, associated with lakṣmī.

Origin, language, and formation

Lakshmi is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Lakshmi comes through Sanskrit लक्ष्मी.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Lakshmi is pronounced /ˈlʌkʃmiː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 877 girls were recorded with the name Lakshmi between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 56 in 2011; its best national rank was #3,033 in 2011.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,211 in 2020 to #6,452 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,666 in 2015 to #6,452 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 Lakshmi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,452
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lakshmi 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lakshmi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lakshmis were born

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

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
877
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.5% of all recorded uses (303).

Is Lakshmi 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
−1,486
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−241
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,786
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.1%
Peak was 2011 (56)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,033
2011

Where Lakshmi is used

Across 1910–2025, Lakshmi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 377,908 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New York1 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. Lakshmi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lakshmi around the world

Where Lakshmi 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
    1996–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • France
    1989–2025
    #5,430
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lakshmi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,452
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 241
Best rank ever
#3,033
2011
Peak year
2011
56 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
877
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Lakshmi

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

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Sibling names for Lakshmi

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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