Entry № 1935 · Sanskrit origin

Chaturangi Chaturangi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHAH-too-RAHN-gee /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Four-limbed / chess-Devi"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "four-limbed / chess-devi".

Chaturangi is from the Sanskrit Caturaṅgī.

Four-limbed / chess-Devi — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

चतुरङ्गी

Transliteration: Caturaṅgī
Pronunciation: / ˌtʃɑː.tuːˈrɑːn.ɡi /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Chaturangi stands.

Chaturangi 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.

Namesakes

Chaturangis before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Chaturanga ancient Indian chess / 4 divisions elephants horses chariots foot / Vatsyayana Kamasutra 4th c. / Puranas Bhavishya Mahabharata Ramayana armies / Shatranj Persian 7th c. Chess European medieval / Chaturanga-Sena / Panini Ashtadhyayi chatur-anga-bala / 64 arts

Sanskrit four-limbed four-parted + catur four + aṅga limb + Caturaṅga ancient-Indian-chess elephants + horses + chariots + foot-soldiers + Caturaṅga Vātsyāyanas Kāmasūtra 4th c. + Bhaviśya Purana + Mahabharata + Ramayana + Shatranj Persian 7th c. + Chess medieval + Caturaṅga-Sena + Aṣṭādhyāyī Pāṇini catur-aṅga-bala + Caturaṅga-Vidyā 64-arts Vātsyāyana

Chaturanga chess

Names connected to Chaturangi.

Numerology

The number behind Chaturangi.

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Chaturangi reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.