Entry № 248 · Marathi origin

Ahilyabai Ahilyabai — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-HIL-yah-bai /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Marathi
Meaning
"The philosopher-queen of Indore (Holkar)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern (Marathi)

A name that means "the philosopher-queen of indore (holkar)".

Ahilyabai Holkar (1725-1795) was the Maratha queen of Indore (Malwa) — one of the great enlightened rulers of pre-British India.

The philosopher-queen of Indore (Holkar) — a Marathi name.

The name in its native script.

अहिल्याबाई
Transliteration
Ahilyābāī
Pronunciation
/ əˈhɪl.jə.baɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ahilyabai stands.

Ahilyabai 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.

Ahilyabais before her.

Real people
Ahilyabai Holkar
Maratha queen of Indore.
1725 – 1795
In fiction
Ahilyabai
Subject of Indian historical novels.

Names connected to Ahilyabai.

The number behind Ahilyabai.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ahilyabai reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.