Entry № 10341 · Sanskrit origin

Tapasi Tapasi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TAH-pah-see /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Female ascetic"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "female ascetic".

Tapasi is from the Sanskrit Tapasī.

Female ascetic — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

तपसी
Transliteration
Tapasī
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɑː.pə.si /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tapasi stands.

Tapasi 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.

Tapasis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Rigveda 10.129 Nasadiya Sukta tapas / Taapsee Pannu
Sanskrit female-ascetic + tapas austerity + Rigveda 10.129 Nāsadīya Sūkta + Tapasvinī women-ascetics + Anasuya + Sabari + Ahalya + Sulabha + Taapsee Pannu 1987- Indian actress
Hindu asceticism

Names connected to Tapasi.

The number behind Tapasi.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tapasi reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.