Entry № 5639 · Sanskrit origin

Kunti Kunti — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KOON-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Mother of the Pandavas"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "mother of the pandavas".

Kunti (कुन्ती) was the mother of the Pandavas in the Mahabharata — through a sage's boon she could summon any god to father her children.

Mother of the Pandavas.

The name in its native script.

कुन्ती
Transliteration
Kuntī
Pronunciation
/ ˈkʊn.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kunti stands.

Kunti 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.

Kuntis before her.

Real people
Kunti
Sanskrit epic heroine.
In fiction
Kunti
Mahabharata.

Names connected to Kunti.

The number behind Kunti.

3

The Communicator

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