Entry № 6293 · Sanskrit origin

Maitrayee Maitrayee — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MIE-trah-yee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Sage Yajnavalkyas wife"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "sage yajnavalkyas wife".

Maitrayee is from the Sanskrit Maitreyī.

Sage Yajnavalkyas wife — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

मैत्रेयी
Transliteration
Maitreyī
Pronunciation
/ ˈmaɪ.trə.ji /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Maitrayee stands.

Maitrayee 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.

Maitrayees before her.

Real people

In fiction
Maitreyi-Yajnavalkya Samvada / Brihadaranyaka 2.4
Sanskrit Vedic Rishika wife of Sage Yajnavalkya + Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad 2.4 + 4.5 + Maitreyī-Yājñavalkya Saṃvāda on immortality + Ātman + alongside Gārgī Vācaknavī + Brahmavādinī
Vedic feminine philosophy

Names connected to Maitrayee.

The number behind Maitrayee.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Maitrayee reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.