Entry № 8165 · Sanskrit origin

Pinaki Pinaki — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ pih-NAH-kee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Trident-bearer / Shiva"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "trident-bearer / shiva".

Pinaki is from the Sanskrit Pinākī.

Trident-bearer / Shiva — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

पिनाकी
Transliteration
Pinākī
Pronunciation
/ pɪˈnɑː.ki /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pinaki stands.

Pinaki 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.

Pinakis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Pinaki Shiva Pinaka bow / Ramayana Bala Kanda Rama breaks Pinaka Sita Svayamvara / Sri Rudram 11 Anuvakas
Sanskrit bearer-of-Pinaka Shivas-bow + pināka bow + Pinākī Shiva Pinaka-bow + Mahabharata + Ramayana + Puranas + Pinaka-Vardhaman broken-by-Rama at Sita-Svayamvara Ramayana Bala Kanda + Pinaka Vedic-astronomical-instrument + Pinākī Ganesha Sahasranama + Sri Rudram
Shiva Pinaki

Names connected to Pinaki.

The number behind Pinaki.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pinaki reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.