Arundhati
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Meaning
name of a revered star and sage's wife in Hindu tradition, associated with steadfastness; famously borne by Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things
The story
Arundhati reaches back into Hindu tradition, where it is the name of a revered star and of a great sage's wife, held up for ages as an emblem of steadfastness and devotion; in some wedding rituals the star is pointed out to newlyweds as a model for the marriage ahead. It is a name with real weight in India and almost no footprint in the West, which changed a little in 1997, when Arundhati Roy published The God of Small Things. The novel, set among the backwaters of Kerala, won the Booker Prize, sold millions of copies worldwide, and made its author one of the most recognizable literary figures alive, as famous later for her essays and activism as for her fiction. In US records Arundhati appears only in the 2020s: a genuinely rare pick, four flowing syllables with a star behind them.
How popular is Arundhati around the world?
In the United States, Arundhati is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source.
United States
under 5 a year
In the United States, Arundhati is not on the Social Security record for 2020 to 2025: names under 5 in a year are withheld at source.
Arundhati appears in US Social Security baby-name records only in small numbers: never enough in any decade to draw a popularity curve.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
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