Entry № 1434 · Sanskrit origin

Bhakti Bhakti — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BAHK-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Devotion / Bhakti-Yoga"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "devotion / bhakti-yoga".

Bhakti is from the Sanskrit Bhaktī. + Madhvāchārya-Dvaita 13-c. + Nimbārka-Dvaitādvaita + Vallabhāchārya-Suddhādvaita 15-c.

Devotion / Bhakti-Yoga — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Bhakti
Transliteration
Bhaktī
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɑːk.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bhakti stands.

Bhakti 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.

Bhaktis before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Bhakti.

The number behind Bhakti.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bhakti reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.