Given name
Gayatri
“a beautiful song”·“a good woman”
Gayatri is a variant of Gita. Interpretations include “a beautiful song” and “a good woman”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Gayatri is a variant of Gita. Interpretations include “a beautiful song” and “a good woman”. These belong to different or overlapping naming contexts.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Sanskrit गायत्री; its root is Sanskrit गै.
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
Gayatri through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 316
- 0 boys · 316 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #11,264 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −7%
- Steady
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 11,264 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 7.3% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,704 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.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Gayatri
- Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakIndian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist criticborn 1942
- Gayatri JoshiIndian actressborn 1977
- Gayatri DeviMaharani of Jaipur and Indian politician (1919–2009)
- Gayatri Patel BahlAmerican-Indian actressborn 1987
- Gayatri GopichandIndian badminton playerborn 2003
- Gayathiri IyerIndian actressborn 1995
- Gayatri SankaranIndian Carnatic musician
- Gayatri BhardwajIndian actressborn 1995
- Gayatri RajapatniQueen consort of Majapahit1274–1350
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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