Entry № 1550 · Sanskrit origin

Bodhi Bodhi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BOH-dee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Enlightenment / awakening"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "enlightenment / awakening".

Bodhi is from the Sanskrit Bodhī.

Enlightenment / awakening — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Bodhi
Transliteration
Bodhī
Pronunciation
/ ˈboː.di /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bodhi stands.

Bodhi 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.

Bodhis before her.

Real people

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Names connected to Bodhi.

The number behind Bodhi.

2

The Peacemaker

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