Given name
Aditi
Aditi is used as a given name. One Hindi interpretation is “unbound; limitless; in Hinduism, the goddess of consciousness, the sky, and fertility.”
Original Hindiअदिति
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “unbound; limitless; in Hinduism, the goddess of consciousness, the sky, and fertility.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hindi.
How it developed
From Sanskrit अदिति (“having nothing to give”); its root is Sanskrit दा.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aditi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,712
- 0 boys · 3,712 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 221 babies
- 2025
- 63
- #2,719 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −28%
- Easing
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 63 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 2,719 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 28.4% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 221 in 2009. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for girls with this name (13). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 5,753 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.
Aditi’s family of names
In English usage, Aditi has a diminutive in Adi. Aditi has a related form in Adithi. Aditi has a related form in Aditea.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Adidiminutive · English
- Adithivariant
- Adityevariant
- Aditeahvariant
- Aditeavariant
- Adyteyvariant
- Adytievariant
- Adyteevariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Aditi
- Aditi Rao HydariIndian actress (born 1978)born 1986
- Aditi GovitrikarIndian actressborn 1974
- Aditi AshokIndian golferborn 1998
- Aditi SharmaIndian actressborn 1983
- Aditi AryaIndian modelborn 1994
- Aditi PantIndian oceanographerborn 1943
- Aditi MittalIndian stand-up comedianborn 1987
- Aditi BhatiaIndian actress and modelborn 1999
- Aditi SarangdharIndian actressborn 1981
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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