Kumari
Origin
Sinhala
Syllables
3
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
maiden, princess (Sanskrit); for the grandmother generation it served both as a given name and as the graceful second element of compounds (Swarna Kumari, Chandra Kumari), a pattern parents have largely retired
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890srare in US records2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Kumari has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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