Entry № 10574 · Sanskrit origin

Thulasi Thulasi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ THOO-lah-see /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Sacred basil"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "sacred basil".

Thulasi is from the Sanskrit Tulasī.

Sacred basil — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

तुलसी
Transliteration
Tulasī
Pronunciation
/ ˈθuː.lə.si /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Thulasi stands.

Thulasi 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.

Thulasis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Tulasi-Vivah / Tulasidas Ramcharitmanas
Sanskrit sacred-holy-basil Ocimum tenuiflorum + incarnation of Lakshmi wife-of-Vishnu + Padma Purana + Bhavishya Purana + Tulasi-Vivah annual marriage-of-Tulasi-to-Vishnu + Ayurveda + Tulasidas 1532-1623 Ramcharitmanas
Hindu Vaishnava

Names connected to Thulasi.

The number behind Thulasi.

9

The Giver

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