Arundhati (अरुन्धती) is the Sanskrit name of the star Alcor in Ursa Major — the wife of the sage Vasishta, both visible in the sky as the double star Mizar-Alcor. In Hindu tradition, Arundhati is the model of wifely fidelity; in the Sapta Rishi (Seven Sages) constellation she is the only female figure. Arundhati Roy (born 1961) — the Indian novelist whose debut The God of Small Things (1997) won the Booker Prize and has sold over 8 million copies worldwide.
Subject of countless Indian astronomical and literary texts.
Arundhati does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Arundhati reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.