Laxmi
Origin
Sanskrit
Syllables
2
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
the goddess of fortune honored on Laxmi Puja, the third night of Nepal's Tihar festival; the x spelling, standard in Nepal, marks the name as Nepali against Indian Lakshmi
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890srare in US records2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Laxmi has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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