Entry № 4814 · Sanskrit origin

Janhvi Janhvi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JAHN-vee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"River Ganges (iconic Janhvi Kapoor - Sridevi's daughter)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "river ganges (iconic janhvi kapoor - sridevi's daughter)".

Janhvi is from the Sanskrit jāhnavī. & Mrs. Princess Janhvi — Hindu heritage naming.

River Ganges (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

जाह्नवी
Transliteration
Jāhnavī
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒɑːn.vi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Janhvi stands.

Janhvi 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.

Janhvis before her.

Real people
Janhvi Kapoor
Iconic Indian Bollywood + Sridevi's daughter + 20M Instagram.
born 1997
In fiction
Janhvi (Ganges)
Iconic Hindu river goddess.

Names connected to Janhvi.

The number behind Janhvi.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Janhvi reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.