Entry № 2270 · Sanskrit origin

Damayanti Damayanti — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ dah-mah-YAHN-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Subduer of suffering (Nala's wife)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "subduer of suffering (nala's wife)".

Damayanti (दमयन्ती) is from the Sanskrit damayati (to subdue, to tame).

Featured in the Mahabharata, Vana Parva.

Subduer of suffering.

The name in its native script.

दमयन्ती
Transliteration
Damayantī
Pronunciation
/ ˌdɑː.mɑːˈjɑːn.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Damayanti stands.

Damayanti 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.

Damayantis before her.

Real people
Damayanti
Sanskrit heroine.
In fiction
Damayanti
Mahabharata Nalopakhyana.

Names connected to Damayanti.

The number behind Damayanti.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Damayanti reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.