Entry № 10122 · Sanskrit origin

Sunayani Sunayani — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SOO-nah-YAH-nee /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Beautiful-eyed / Devi"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "beautiful-eyed / devi".

Sunayani is from the Sanskrit Sunayanī.

Beautiful-eyed / Devi — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

सुनयनी

Transliteration: Sunayanī
Pronunciation: / ˌsuː.nɑːˈjɑː.ni /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Sunayani stands.

Sunayani 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.

Namesakes

Sunayanis before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Sunayana mother of Sita wife of Janaka Mithila Ramayana Bala 66 / Valmiki Sunayana-Janaka / Sunayana-Devi Bihar Nepal / Sunayani Devi 1875-1962 Bengali artist sister of Rabindranath Abanindranath Tagore

Sanskrit beautiful-eyed lovely-eyes + su- good + nayana eye + Sunayanā Sita Ramayana Bala Kanda 66 + Sunayanā mother-of-Sita wife-of-Janaka Mithila + Valmiki Sunayanā-Janaka Mithila + Sunayanā-Devī Mithila-Bihar-Nepal + Sunayana Vedic-poetess Rigvedic + Sunayani Devi 1875-1962 Bengali-artist Padma-Shri sister Rabindranath-Tagore + Abanindranath-Tagore

Sunayana Sita

Names connected to Sunayani.

Numerology

The number behind Sunayani.

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sunayani reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.