Lakshmi (लक्ष्मी) comes from the Sanskrit lakṣa, meaning "sign" or "mark" — but the name belongs first to one of the most venerated goddesses in Hinduism. Lakshmi is the goddess of wealth, fortune, prosperity, and beauty, the consort of Vishnu.
The name is among the most widely given girl names in India and across the South Asian diaspora.
Lakshmi 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 Lakshmi reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.