Entry № 1442 · Sanskrit origin

Bhanurekha Bhanurekha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BAH-noo-REH-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Ray of sun / Suryas rays"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "ray of sun / suryas rays".

Bhanurekha is from the Sanskrit Bhānurekhā.

Ray of sun / Suryas rays — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

भानुरेखा
Transliteration
Bhānurekhā
Pronunciation
/ ˌbɑː.nuːˈrɛ.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bhanurekha stands.

Bhanurekha 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.

Bhanurekhas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Bhanu Sun / 12 Adityas Mitra Varuna Aryaman Amsha Bhaga Vivasvat Pushan Savitri Tvashtri Vishnu Dhatri Parjanya / Surya-Namaskara 12 / Aditya-Hridaya-Stotra 31 verses Ramayana Yuddha 105 Agastya Rama Ravana / Bhanurekha Rekha 1954 Padma Shri 2010 / Ravi Bhanu Bhaskara Aditya Surya Divakara Prabhakara Mihira
Sanskrit ray-of-sun sun-line + bhānu sun + rekhā line + Bhānu Sun-epithet + 12-Adityas Mitra + Varuṇa + Aryaman + Aṃśa + Bhaga + Vivasvat + Pūṣan + Sāvitṛ + Tvaṣṭṛ + Viṣṇu + Dhātṛ + Parjanya + Sūrya-Namaskāra 12-postures Aditya-Hṛdaya-Stotra 31-verses Ramayana Yuddha Kanda 105 Agastya Rama Ravana + Bhānu-Rekhā Rekha 1954- Padma-Shri 2010 + Ravi + Bhānu + Bhāskara + Aditya + Sūrya + Divākara + Prabhākara + Mihira
Bhanu Rekha

Names connected to Bhanurekha.

The number behind Bhanurekha.

8

The Visionary

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