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Aadhi

Gender
Boy
Say it
AH-dee
Origin
Sanskrit
UK rank, 2025
#5,065 for boys
US rank, 2025
#9,710 for boys

Aadhi is a boys' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “first, beginning”. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies) and 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).

What does Aadhi mean?

Sanskrit: from Sanskrit adi

“first, beginning”

From Sanskrit adi 'first, beginning', a word found in names such as Adinath and Adi Shankara.

Is Aadhi a girl's or a boy's name?

Aadhi is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK and 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Aadhi in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#5,065among boys
Babies in 2025
3about 1 in 100,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Aadhi, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,502nd. Its busiest year was 2021, with 7 boys.

In 2025, 22 boys in the UK were given Aadhi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,165, up from #5,065 for this spelling alone.

Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.

2015Busiest: 7 in 20212025
Aadhi in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20253#5,065
20240–
20235#3,712
20220–
20217#2,886
20205#3,502
20190–
20181#6,277
20170–
20160–
20153#4,955

How popular is Aadhi in the US?

Rank in 2025
#9,710among boys
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 240,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Aadhi, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2018, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 2013.

Half of all the boys named Aadhi in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 70 boys in the US were given Aadhi or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,819, up from #9,710 for this spelling alone.

2013Busiest: 16 in 20182025
Aadhi in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20257#9,710
20247#9,888
20238#8,916
20229#8,293
202110#7,582
20209#8,062
201912#6,772
201816#5,536
201710#7,542
20165#12,180
201511#7,061
20145#12,102
20137#9,650

Names like Aadhi

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Aadhi

More Sanskrit names

Every Sanskrit name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Aadhi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/aadhi, updated 20 October 2026.