Entry № 631 · Tamil origin

Andal Andal — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AHN-dahl /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Tamil
Meaning
"Tamil poet-saint (only female Alvar)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Tamil)

A name that means "tamil poet-saint (only female alvar)".

Andal (ஆண்டாள்) means "she who rules" in Tamil. Andal (8th c.) was the only female among the twelve Alvar saints of Tamil Nadu — Vaishnava mystic-poets.

She who rules.

The name in its native script.

ஆண்டாள்
Transliteration
Āṇṭāḷ
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑːn.dəl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Andal stands.

Andal 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.

Andals before her.

Real people
Andal
Only female Alvar saint.
8th c.
In fiction
Andal
Author of Thiruppavai.

Names connected to Andal.

The number behind Andal.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Andal reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.