Madhuri

Girls' name

Sweetness

Madhuri has been given to 58 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1994, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Madhuri, 1998

1 in 525,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Madhuri: meaning, origin, and history

Sweetness

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Madhuri means

Madhuri means “sweetness”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Madhuri is used in Marathi, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 58 girls were recorded with the name Madhuri between 1971 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1994; its best national rank was #8,517 in 1994.

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 Madhuri?

Madhuri had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1998: 1 in 525,000; 7 of 3,677,189 births
Among girls only: 1 in 252,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1998: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 364,120 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Madhuri 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 1998 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 364,120 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Madhuri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Madhuris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Madhuri was born before 1993 — so the typical Madhuri is around 32 today.

Median birth year: 1993; About 32 years old
Biggest decade: 1990s; 62.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 91.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 58; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1990s — 62.1% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Madhuri 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 1994 (10)
Years since peak: 31; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 19.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,517; 1994

Spellings of Madhuri

Madhuri is not the most common spelling — Mauri is, with 93.5% against Madhuri's 6.5%.

Mauri93.5%838
Madhuri6.5%58

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.

Madhuri around the world

Where Madhuri 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.

France
2007–2007
#6,057
in 2007

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Madhuri 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: #8,517; 1994
Peak year: 1994; 10 that year
First recorded: 1971
Last recorded: 1998
All-time count: 58
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Madhuri

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

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Sibling names for Madhuri

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

Breonna Austin Darian Rikki Khadijah Lucero Kaylene Jacquelynn

For a brother

Denton Jade Trever Darion Darrius Daquan Dashawn Hernan

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