Entry № 4339 · Sanskrit origin

Holi Holi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HOH-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Festival of colors"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "festival of colors".

Holi is from the Sanskrit Holī.

Festival of colors — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

होली
Transliteration
Holī
Pronunciation
/ ˈhoʊ.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Holi stands.

Holi 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.

Holis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Holika Dahan Prahlada Bhagavata Canto 7 / Krishna Radha Rasa-Lila / Braj Barsana Lath-mar-Holi
Sanskrit pan-Hindu festival-of-colors spring + Holikā demoness sister-of-Hiraṇyakaśipu + two-day Phalguna-Purnima February-March + Krishnas Rāsa-Līlā + Radha-Krishna + Holikā Dahan Prahladas salvation by Vishnu-Narasimha Bhagavata Purana Canto 7 + Braj Holi Barsana-Nandgaon Lath-mar-Holi
Hindu Holi

Names connected to Holi.

The number behind Holi.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Holi reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.