Entry № 1218 · Sanskrit origin

Bahubali Bahubali — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ bah-HOO-bah-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Strong-armed / Jain Gomateshwara"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "strong-armed / jain gomateshwara".

Bahubali is from the Sanskrit Bāhubalī.

Strong-armed / Jain Gomateshwara — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

बाहुबली
Transliteration
Bāhubalī
Pronunciation
/ bɑːˈhuː.bɑː.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bahubali stands.

Bahubali 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.

Bahubalis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Gomateshwara Shravanabelagola 57ft ~981 CE / Mahamastakabhisheka every 12 years
Sanskrit strong-armed + bāhu arm + bala strength + son of first Jain Tirthankara Ṛṣabhanātha + Gomateshwara Bahubali monolithic-statue Shravanabelagola Karnataka 57-feet + Chavundaraya Ganga dynasty ~981 + Mahāmastakābhiṣeka every 12 years
Jain heritage

Names connected to Bahubali.

The number behind Bahubali.

2

The Peacemaker

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