Entry № 11665 · Sanskrit origin

Yamini Yamini — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yah-MEE-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Night"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "night".

Yamini (यामिनी) is the Sanskrit word for "night" — also an epithet of the goddess Durga (the dark night). The cool serene night.

Yamini Krishnamurthy (1940-2024) was the legendary Indian Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi dancer.

Night. The legendary Bharatanatyam dancer.

The name in its native script.

यामिनी
Transliteration
Yāminī
Pronunciation
/ jəˈmiː.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yamini stands.

Yamini 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.

Yaminis before her.

Real people
Yamini Krishnamurthy
Indian classical dancer.
1940 – 2024
In fiction
Yamini
Common in Indian films.

Names connected to Yamini.

The number behind Yamini.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yamini reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.