Entry № 2340 · Sanskrit origin

Dashami Dashami — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DAH-shah-mee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Tenth day / Vijayadashami"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "tenth day / vijayadashami".

Dashami is from the Sanskrit Daśamī.

Tenth day / Vijayadashami — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

दशमी
Transliteration
Daśamī
Pronunciation
/ ˈdɑː.ʃə.mi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dashami stands.

Dashami 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.

Dashamis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Vijayadashami Dussehra / Rama-Ravana / Durga-Mahishasura / Ravana-Dahana / Shastra-Puja
Sanskrit tenth-day + daśa ten + Vijayā-Daśamī / Dussehra Hindu-festival Ramas-victory-over-Ravana + Durgas-victory-over-Mahishasura Ashvin-Shukla-Dashami + Valmiki Ramayana + Devi Mahatmya + Rāvaṇa-Dahana + Śastra-Pūjā + Aparājita-Pūjā
Hindu Dussehra

Names connected to Dashami.

The number behind Dashami.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dashami reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.