Entry № 840 · Sanskrit origin

Arati Arati — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-rah-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Devotional light (Arati Saha first Asian woman English Channel)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "devotional light (arati saha first asian woman english channel)".

Arati is from the Sanskrit āratī (आरती — devotional light, lamp ceremony).

Devotional light (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

आरती
Transliteration
Āratī
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑː.rə.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Arati stands.

Arati 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.

Aratis before her.

Real people
Arati Saha
First Asian woman to swim English Channel + Padma Shri 1960.
1940 – 1994
In fiction
Arati
Hindu devotional light.

Names connected to Arati.

The number behind Arati.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Arati reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.