Entry № 1489 · Sanskrit origin

Bindu Bindu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Cosmic point (Tantric Sri Yantra)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "cosmic point (tantric sri yantra)".

Bindu is from the Sanskrit बिन्दु (Bindu — point, dot, drop, particle). Bindu is one of the Sanskrit feminine + unisex names — central to traditional Hindu Tantric heritage.

Cosmic point (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

बिन्दु
Transliteration
Bindu
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɪn.duː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bindu stands.

Bindu 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.

Bindus before her.

Real people
Bindu Madhavi
Indian Telugu actress.
Contemporary
In fiction
Bindu
Central point of Sri Yantra + Sri Chakra + Sri Vidya Tantric + Lalita Sahasranama + bindi forehead dot ajna chakra.
Hindu Tantra

Names connected to Bindu.

The number behind Bindu.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bindu reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.