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Poornima Poornima — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ POOR-nee-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Full moon"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "full moon".

Poornima is from the Sanskrit पूर्णिमा (Pūrṇimā — full moon, full). Poornima is one of the Sanskrit feminine names — central to traditional Hindu-Indian heritage. Sanskrit feminine name.

Full moon (Sanskrit-Hindu).

The name in its native script.

पूर्णिमा
Transliteration
Pūrṇimā
Pronunciation
/ ˈpʊər.ni.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Poornima stands.

Poornima 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.

Poornimas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Pūrṇimā
Sanskrit full moon + Hindu lunar calendar + Buddha Purnima.

Names connected to Poornima.

The number behind Poornima.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Poornima reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.