Entry № 2026 · Sanskrit origin

Choli Choli — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHOH-lee /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Blouse / traditional garment"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "blouse / traditional garment".

Choli is from the Sanskrit Colī. BCE-13th c.

Blouse / traditional garment — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

चोली

Transliteration: Colī
Pronunciation: / ˈtʃoʊ.li /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Choli stands.

Choli 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

Cholis before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Choli Sari blouse / Ghagra-Choli-Odhani / Chola Empire 3rd BCE-13th c. South Indian / Ghaghra-Choli Rajasthani Gujarati / Kamasutra Vatsyayana 4th c. / Rasa-Lila Krishna Gopis Bhagavata 10:29-33 / Chola dynasty 300 BCE-1279 Rajaraja I 985-1014 Rajendra I 1014-1044 / Brihadeeswara Tanjore 1010

Sanskrit traditional-Indian-blouse choli-blouse + cola cloth + Colī traditional womens-blouse Sari + Ghāgra-Choli-Odhani + Colī Chola-Empire 3rd c. BCE-13th c. South-Indian + Ghāghrā-Colī Rajasthani-Gujarati + Colī Kāmasūtra Vātsyāyana 4th c. + Rāsa-Līlā Krishna-Gopis Bhagavata Purana Canto 10 Chapter 29-33 + Colā-Rāja Chola-dynasty 300 BCE-1279 Rajaraja-Chola I 985-1014 + Rajendra-Chola I 1014-1044 + Brihadeeswara-Temple Tanjore UNESCO 1010

Choli Chola

Names connected to Choli.

Numerology

The number behind Choli.

The Peacemaker

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