Entry № 1440 · Sanskrit origin

Bhanumati Bhanumati — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BAH-noo-mah-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Sun-endowed (Duryodhana wife)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "sun-endowed (duryodhana wife)".

Bhanumati is from the Sanskrit Bhānumatī.

Sun-endowed (Duryodhana wife) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

भानुमती
Transliteration
Bhānumatī
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɑː.nuː.mə.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bhanumati stands.

Bhanumati 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.

Bhanumatis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Bhanumati wife of Duryodhana / Bhanumathi Ramakrishna
Sanskrit sun-endowed + Bhānumatī wife of Duryodhana eldest Kaurava in Mahabharata + Bhīṣma Parva + Bhanumathi Ramakrishna 1925-2005 South Indian polymath actress + singer + director
Mahabharata

Names connected to Bhanumati.

The number behind Bhanumati.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bhanumati reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.