Entry № 1276 · Sanskrit origin

Basanti Basanti — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ bah-SAHN-tee /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Spring-yellow / Vasant Panchami"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "spring-yellow / vasant panchami".

Basanti is from the Sanskrit Vāsantī.

Spring-yellow / Vasant Panchami — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

वसन्ती

Transliteration: Vāsantī
Pronunciation: / bəˈsɑːn.ti /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Basanti stands.

Basanti 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.

Namesakes

Basantis before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Vasant Panchami Saraswati / Basanti Ragini / Sholay 1975 Hema Malini

Sanskrit spring-related saffron-yellow + Vasanta spring + Basanti-color saffron-yellow sacred to Saraswati Vasant Panchami + Basanti Ragini Hindustani + Tagore Basanta Utsav + Sholay 1975 Basanti Hema Malini

Hindu spring

Names connected to Basanti.

Numerology

The number behind Basanti.

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Basanti reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.