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Laxmi

Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Lakshmi

Laxmi has been given to 57 babies in the U.S. since 1998. 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 2012, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Laxmi, 2024

1 in 669,000

Laxmi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Laxmi: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Lakshmi

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Laxmi means

Laxmi is a alternate transcription of Lakshmi.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Laxmi is used in Telugu, Marathi, Hindi and Nepali.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Laxmi → Lakshmi. The family’s meaning is “mark, sign”, recorded in English with the source elements lakṣmī.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lakshmi.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 57 girls were recorded with the name Laxmi between 1998 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2012; its best national rank was #10,903 in 2012.

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 Laxmi?

Laxmi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Laxmi 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Laxmi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Laxmis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Laxmi was born before 2012 — so the typical Laxmi is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
70.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
57
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 70.2% of all recorded uses (40).

Is Laxmi 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 2012 (10)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,903
2012

Spellings of Laxmi

Laxmi is not the most common spelling — Naomi is, with 53.8% against Laxmi's 0.02%.

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.

Laxmi around the world

Where Laxmi 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
    1997–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1995–1995
    #712
    in 1995

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.

Laxmi 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
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Best rank ever
#10,903
2012
Peak year
2012
10 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
57
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Laxmi

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

Laxmy

Sibling names for Laxmi

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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