Mithali is from the Sanskrit maitrī (मैत्री) — "friendship, loving-kindness" — also a central concept in Buddhist philosophy (the Maitri practice, the Bodhisattva of loving-kindness). Retired in 2022. The biopic Shabaash Mithu (2022) starred Taapsee Pannu. In Buddhism, the Maitrī Sutta is a text on loving-kindness meditation.
Mithali 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 Mithali reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.