Given name & surname
Tulasi
“a sacred plant; basil plant”
Tulasi is used as a given name and a surname. One Indian interpretation is “a sacred plant; basil plant.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “a sacred plant; basil plant.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2002. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tulasi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 12
- 0 boys · 12 girls
- Most popular year
- 2009
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 432 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.
Tulasi’s family of names
Tulasi has a related form in Tulsi. Tulasi has a related form in Tulasea. Tulasi has a related form in Tulasee.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Tulsivariant
- Tulseavariant
- Tulseevariant
- Tulseyvariant
- Tulsyvariant
- Tulsievariant
- Tulaseavariant
- Tulaseevariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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