Nethmi

Meaning

built on Sinhala neth, eye (from Sanskrit netra); one of the most popular girls' names of 2010s Sri Lanka, part of the current fashion for soft two- and three-syllable coinages (Nethmi, Senuri, Sithmi) whose opening syllables are often set by the birth horoscope

Popularity, 1890–2024

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Nethmi has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.

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