Entry № 1680 · Sanskrit origin

Buddhi Buddhi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BOOD-dee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Intellect / discriminative-wisdom"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "intellect / discriminative-wisdom".

Buddhi is from the Sanskrit Buddhī.

Intellect / discriminative-wisdom — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Buddhi
Transliteration
Buddhī
Pronunciation
/ ˈbʊd.di /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Buddhi stands.

Buddhi 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.

Buddhis before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Buddhi.

The number behind Buddhi.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Buddhi reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.