Entry № 5228 · Sanskrit origin

Kanyakumari Kanyakumari — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAHN-yah-koo-MAH-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Virgin-goddess / southernmost tip"
Syllables
5
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "virgin-goddess / southernmost tip".

Kanyakumari is from the Sanskrit Kanyākumārī.

Virgin-goddess / southernmost tip — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

कन्याकुमारी
Transliteration
Kanyākumārī
Pronunciation
/ ˌkɑːn.jɑː.kuːˈmɑː.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kanyakumari stands.

Kanyakumari 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.

Kanyakumaris before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kanyakumari southernmost tip / Bhagavati Amman Kumari Temple Shakti Pitha Satis spine / 3 seas confluence / Vivekananda Rock 1970
Sanskrit virgin-Devi maiden-goddess + kanyā virgin + kumārī maiden + Kanyākumārī southernmost-tip Indian mainland Tamil Nadu + Bhagavatī Amman Kumārī-Amman Temple 51 Śakti-Pīṭha Satis-spine-fell + Parvati-form austerity-to-marry-Shiva + confluence Bay-of-Bengal + Arabian-Sea + Indian-Ocean + Vivekananda Rock 1970
Kanyakumari Shakta

Names connected to Kanyakumari.

The number behind Kanyakumari.

8

The Visionary

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