Lahari
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- luh-HAH-ree
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Lahari is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “wave”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Lahari mean?
Sanskrit: from Sanskrit lahari
“wave”
From Sanskrit lahari, a wave or billow; the word is used in the same sense in Hindi and Telugu.
Is Lahari a girl's or a boy's name?
Lahari is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lahari in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,913among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Lahari, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2006, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
2025 had more girls named Lahari than any year since 2016.
Half of all the girls named Lahari in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Lahari in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,684 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,181 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
Names like Lahari
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Zaniyah Kaliyah Hadassah Jaliyah Sariyah Naziyah Sarahi Kamiyah Zaliyah Samadhi Safa
Names related to Lahari
More Sanskrit names
Maya Bodhi Arya Lila Arjun Aarav Rohan Kali Aryan Opal Arjan Vihaan Aadhya Avyaan Ishaan Siya
Sources
Figures from 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, “Lahari: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lahari, updated 20 October 2026.