Entry № 5098 · Sanskrit origin

Kadhambari Kadhambari — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-DAHM-bah-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Banas Sanskrit prose"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "banas sanskrit prose".

Kadhambari is from the Sanskrit Kādambarī.

Banas Sanskrit prose — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

कादम्बरी
Transliteration
Kādambarī
Pronunciation
/ kəˈdɑːm.bə.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kadhambari stands.

Kadhambari 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.

Kadhambaris before her.

Real people

In fiction
Banabhatta Kadambari 7th c. / Emperor Harshavardhana
Sanskrit prose-romance by Bāṇabhaṭṭa ~7th c. at court of Harshavardhana + Harṣacarita + earliest novel-tradition + completed by son Bhūṣaṇabhaṭṭa + Chandrapida + Kadambari
Sanskrit literature

Names connected to Kadhambari.

The number behind Kadhambari.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kadhambari reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.