Entry № 568 · Sanskrit origin

Amrapali Amrapali — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ahm-rah-PAH-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Vaishali courtesan-turned-Buddhist nun"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "vaishali courtesan-turned-buddhist nun".

Amrapali is from the Sanskrit Āmrapālī.

Vaishali courtesan-turned-Buddhist nun — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

आम्रपाली
Transliteration
Āmrapālī
Pronunciation
/ ɑːm.rɑːˈpɑː.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Amrapali stands.

Amrapali 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.

Amrapalis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Amrapali Vaishali / Therigatha
Sanskrit royal courtesan of Vaishali ~5th c. BCE + converted by Buddha + donated mango-grove Ambapalivana to Sangha + Vinaya Pitaka + Therigatha Buddhist nuns poems
Buddhist

Names connected to Amrapali.

The number behind Amrapali.

8

The Visionary

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