Padmini
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name from Sanskrit
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Padmini is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 2.4K(measured from records)
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 7Kfew records
- INIndia≈1 in 9K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A female given name from Sanskrit.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Padmini counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 9K | 20 | Padmini | 128 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #790 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Padmini | 26 |
| US United States | — | 820 | 1 in 406K | 820 | Padmini | 172 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Padmini | 15 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Padmini | 9 |
| GY Guyana | — | 314 | 1 in 2.4K | 314 | — | — |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Padmini | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Padmini is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, weibl. Vom. indischer Herkunft (zu sanskrit. padma »Lotus«, »dem Lotus glei chend«), Beiname der Göttin Lakschmi.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Sanskrit: ‘full of lotuses’ or ‘lotus pond’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Padminib. 1932INIndian actress (1932–2006)
- Kutty Padminib. 1956INSouth Indian movie actress
- Padmini Routb. 1994INIndian chess player
- Padmini MurthyINIndian American physician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Padmini mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name from Sanskrit. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Padmini a male or female name?
- Padmini is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: India (India Names Dataset) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Padmini have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 161 thousand people named Padmini in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled padmini.
- Where is Padmini most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Padmini is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 2.4 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Padmini?
- In the United States, the national register counted 820 people named Padmini in 2020, about 1 in 406 thousand residents.
- How common is Padmini compared with other names?
- In Sri Lanka, Padmini is the 790th most common given name of 14,062 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/padminiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Padmini” — the 790th most common given name in Sri Lanka. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.