Entry № 2285 · Sanskrit origin

Damyanti Damyanti — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ dahm-YAHN-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Nala-Damayanti (Mahabharata love-story)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "nala-damayanti (mahabharata love-story)".

Damyanti is from the Sanskrit Damayantī.

Nala-Damayanti (Mahabharata love-story) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

दमयन्ती
Transliteration
Damayantī
Pronunciation
/ dəmˈjɑːn.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Damyanti stands.

Damyanti 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.

Damyantis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Nala-Damayanti Mahabharata / Naiṣadha-Charita
Sanskrit one who subdues + wife of King Nala + Mahabharata Vana Parva Nala-Damayanti Upakhyana + Vidarbha princess chose Nala at Svayamvara + Sri Harshas Naiṣadha-Charita ~12th c.
Mahabharata

Names connected to Damyanti.

The number behind Damyanti.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Damyanti reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.