Entry № 11070 · Sanskrit origin

Vaishnavi Vaishnavi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VYSH-nah-vee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Devotee of Vishnu"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "devotee of vishnu".

Vaishnavi (वैष्णवी) is the Sanskrit word for a female devotee of Vishnu — also an epithet of Lakshmi, Vishnu's consort.

Vaishnavi is widely used across India.

Devotee of Vishnu. The Lakshmi epithet.

The name in its native script.

वैष्णवी
Transliteration
Vaiṣṇavī
Pronunciation
/ ˈvaɪʃ.nə.vi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Vaishnavi stands.

Vaishnavi 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.

Vaishnavis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Vaishnavi
Common in Indian films.

Names connected to Vaishnavi.

The number behind Vaishnavi.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vaishnavi reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.