Given name

Aarti

Aarti is a feminine given name from Sanskrit.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Aarti comes from Sanskrit.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Sanskrit आरती.

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The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Aarti through the years

Babies since 1880
437
0 boys · 437 girls
Most popular year
1982
22 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
051015198020002025Highest share 19820.0
Aarti in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1971–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 22 in 1982. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,487 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Aarti’s family of names

In Finnish usage, Aarti has a related form in Artur. In Finnish usage, Aarti has a related form in ARTTI. In Finnish usage, Aarti has a related form in ARTTI.

Walk Aarti’s family in the name graph

AartiArtiAartieArturArttiAratiआरती

Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.

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Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 2

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 2

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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Sibling ideas

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