Entry № 4476 · Sanskrit origin

Ilavati Ilavati — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EE-lah-vah-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Earth-possessing / knowledge"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "earth-possessing / knowledge".

Ilavati is from the Sanskrit Ilāvatī.

Earth-possessing / knowledge — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

इलावती
Transliteration
Ilāvatī
Pronunciation
/ ˈiː.lə.və.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ilavati stands.

Ilavati 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.

Ilavatis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ila Vedic goddess Rigveda 1.13.9 10.110.8 / Ila daughter of Manu-Vaivasvata / Pururavas-Urvashi son of Ila Lunar dynasty
Sanskrit earth-possessing speech-endowed + ilā earth + -vatī possessing + Ilā Vedic-goddess earth-speech-nourishment Rigveda 1.13.9 + 10.110.8 Āprī-Sūkta + Ilā daughter-of-Manu-Vaivasvata gender-changing-Sudyumna Bhagavata Canto 9 + Purūravas-Urvaśī son of Ilā Chandra-vaṃśa
Vedic Ila

Names connected to Ilavati.

The number behind Ilavati.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ilavati reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.