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
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Grammatical form
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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

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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.