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Padma

#12,852 in 2025Girls' name

Lotus

Padma has been given to 58 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #12,852 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Padma, 2025

1 in 474,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Padma: meaning, origin, and history

Lotus

Sanskrit

What Padma means

Padma means “lotus”, associated with padma.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Sanskrit पद्म (padma, “lotus”), which the river was named for. Doublet of Pema.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Padma (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Padma is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Padma comes through Sanskrit पद्म.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Padma is pronounced /ˈpɑdmə/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 58 girls were recorded with the name Padma between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2007; its best national rank was #7,847 in 1968.

How common is Padma?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,852
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Padma 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Padma. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Padmas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Padma was born before 2007 — so the typical Padma is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
58
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2000s — 32.8% of all recorded uses (19).

Is Padma 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
77.8%
Peak was 2007 (9)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,847
1968

Spellings of Padma

Padma is not the most common spelling — Paula is, with 34.1% against Padma's <0.01%.

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.

Where Padma is used

Across 1910–2025, Padma was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

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

Padma by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,852
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#7,847
1968
Peak year
2007
9 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
58
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Padma

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

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Sibling names for Padma

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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