Entry № 1488 · Aboriginal Australian origin

Bindi Bindi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BIN-dee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Aboriginal Australian
Meaning
"Butterfly; forehead mark"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Aboriginal)

A name that means "butterfly; forehead mark".

Bindi has parallel meanings. In Aboriginal Australian (specifically Noongar), it means "butterfly." In Hindi (बिंदी), it's the small decorative mark worn on the forehead, from Sanskrit bindu (drop).

Butterfly. Steve Irwin's daughter.

The name in its native script.

बिंदी
Transliteration
Bindī
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɪn.di /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bindi stands.

Bindi 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.

Bindis before her.

Real people
Bindi Irwin
Australian wildlife conservationist.
born 1998
In fiction
Bindi
Common in Australian fiction.

Names connected to Bindi.

The number behind Bindi.

2

The Peacemaker

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