Entry № 831 · Sanskrit origin

Aranyani Aranyani — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-rahn-YAH-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Forest-goddess (Rig Vedic wilderness)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "forest-goddess (rig vedic wilderness)".

Aranyani (अरण्यानी) combines the Sanskrit aranya (forest) and the feminine suffix. The Vedic goddess of forests and the creatures of the wild — celebrated in Rig Veda 10.146, one of the rare hymns to a female deity. The hymn describes her as elusive, heard but seldom seen — laughing in twilight, singing through the trees.

Featured in Rig Veda 10.146.

Forest-goddess. Heard but seldom seen — laughing in twilight.

The name in its native script.

अरण्यानी
Transliteration
Araṇyānī
Pronunciation
/ ˌɑː.rənˈjɑː.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aranyani stands.

Aranyani 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.

Aranyanis before her.

Real people
Aranyani
Vedic forest goddess.
In fiction
Aranyani
Rig Veda 10.146.

Names connected to Aranyani.

The number behind Aranyani.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aranyani reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.