Entry № 2527 · Sanskrit origin

Dilani Dilani — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ dee-LAH-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Bright heart (Sinhala-Sanskrit + Dilani Abeywardana Sri Lankan)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Sinhala)

A name that means "bright heart (sinhala-sanskrit + dilani abeywardana sri lankan)".

Dilani is from the Sinhala / Sanskrit Dilani (දිලානි — dil heart + -ani feminine suffix) — bright-hearted, the one with the bright heart. Dilani is one of the Sinhala feminine names — central to traditional Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist heritage.

Bright heart (Sinhala-Sanskrit-Persian-Urdu).

The name in its native script.

දිලානි
Transliteration
Dilani
Pronunciation
/ diːˈlɑː.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dilani stands.

Dilani 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.

Dilanis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Dilani
Sinhala bright heart.

Names connected to Dilani.

The number behind Dilani.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dilani reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.