Entry № 10318 · Sanskrit origin

Tanira Tanira — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tah-NEE-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Slender-formed / graceful"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "slender-formed / graceful".

Tanira is from the Sanskrit Tanīrā.

Slender-formed / graceful — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

तनीरा
Transliteration
Tanīrā
Pronunciation
/ təˈniː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tanira stands.

Tanira 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.

Taniras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Bharata Natyashastra Tanu / Kalidasa / Ashtavidha-Nayika / Vatsyayana Kamasutra
Sanskrit slender-formed graceful-body + tanu body slender + Tanu body Sanskrit-poetics Nāyikā-classification + Bharatas Nāṭyaśāstra + Kalidasa + Tanu-madhyā slender-waisted Sanskrit-poetic-heroine + Aṣṭavidha-Nāyikā eight-heroines + Vātsyāyanas Kāmasūtra
Sanskrit poetics

Names connected to Tanira.

The number behind Tanira.

9

The Giver

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