Entry № 934 · Sanskrit origin

Aruni Aruni — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-ROO-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Dawn (Sage Uddalaka Aruni)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "dawn (sage uddalaka aruni)".

Aruni is from the Sanskrit Aruṇī.

Dawn (Sage Uddalaka Aruni) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

अरुणी
Transliteration
Aruṇī
Pronunciation
/ əˈruː.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Aruni stands.

Aruni 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.

Arunis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Uddalaka Aruni / Tat Tvam Asi Chandogya
Sanskrit dawn reddish + Uddālaka Āruṇi Vedic sage + Chandogya Upanishad ~8th-6th c. BCE + teacher of Shvetaketu + Tat Tvam Asi 6.8.7 + Brihadaranyaka
Hindu Upanishad

Names connected to Aruni.

The number behind Aruni.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Aruni reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.