Entry № 2805 · Sanskrit origin

Ekadashi Ekadashi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EH-kah-DAH-shee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Eleventh day / fasting"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "eleventh day / fasting".

Ekadashi is from the Sanskrit Ekādaśī.

Eleventh day / fasting — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

एकादशी
Transliteration
Ekādaśī
Pronunciation
/ ˌɛ.kɑːˈdɑː.ʃi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ekadashi stands.

Ekadashi 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.

Ekadashis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ekadashi 11th day fasting to Vishnu / 24 Ekadashis / Vaikuntha-Ekadashi Margashirsha / Nirjala-Ekadashi Jyestha / Padma Purana
Sanskrit eleventh-day + eka one + daśa ten + Ekādaśī fasting-day 11th-day of each fortnight Vishnu + 24-Ekadashis per-year + Vaikuṇṭha-Ekādaśī Margashirsha-Shukla Sri Vaishnavism + Nirjala-Ekādaśī Jyestha-Shukla waterless-fast + Padma Purana Ekadashi-Mahatmya
Vaishnava Ekadashi

Names connected to Ekadashi.

The number behind Ekadashi.

4

The Builder

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