Entry № 9235 · Tamil origin

Saraswathy Saraswathy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender
Girl
Origin
Tamil
Meaning
"Goddess of knowledge"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "goddess of knowledge".

Saraswathy is a name of Tamil origin, meaning the goddess of knowledge and music.

Goddess of knowledge — a Tamil name.

The name in its native script.

Saraswathy
Transliteration
Saraswathy
Pronunciation
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Root
Grammatical form

Where Saraswathy stands.

Saraswathy 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.

Saraswathys before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Saraswathy.

The number behind Saraswathy.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Saraswathy reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.