Entry № 5626 · Sanskrit origin

Kumudini Kumudini — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ koo-moo-DEE-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Water lily (Kumudini Lakhia - Kathak Padma Vibhushan)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "water lily (kumudini lakhia - kathak padma vibhushan)".

Kumudini is from the Sanskrit kumud (कुमुद — water lily) + -inī (feminine possessive). Kumudini Lakhia (1930-2023) was an Indian classical Kathak dancer and choreographer — widely considered one of the figures of 20th-century Kathak alongside Pandit Birju Maharaj.

Water lily (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

कुमुदिनी
Transliteration
Kumudinī
Pronunciation
/ kuːmuːˈdiː.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kumudini stands.

Kumudini 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.

Kumudinis before her.

Real people
Kumudini Lakhia
Kathak + Padma Vibhushan 2023.
1930 – 2023
In fiction
Kumudini
Sanskrit water lily.

Names connected to Kumudini.

The number behind Kumudini.

3

The Communicator

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