Entry № 5221 · Tamil origin

Kannagi Kannagi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-NAH-gee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Tamil
Meaning
"Heroine of Tamil epic Silappatikaram"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Tamil)

A name that means "heroine of tamil epic silappatikaram".

Kannagi (கண்ணகி) is the heroine of the Tamil epic Silappatikaram ("The Tale of an Anklet," c. 2nd-3rd c. When her husband Kovalan was wrongly executed by the Pandyan king, she came to the court and burned the city of Madurai to the ground with the fire of her chastity.

Tamil epic heroine.

The name in its native script.

கண்ணகி
Transliteration
Kaṇṇaki
Pronunciation
/ kəˈnɑː.ɡi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kannagi stands.

Kannagi 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.

Kannagis before her.

Real people
Kannagi
Tamil epic heroine.
In fiction
Kannagi
Heroine of Silappatikaram.
c. 2nd-3rd c. CE

Names connected to Kannagi.

The number behind Kannagi.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kannagi reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.