Entry № 2370 · Sanskrit origin

Deepavali Deepavali — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DEE-pah-vah-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Row of lamps / Diwali"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "row of lamps / diwali".

Deepavali is from the Sanskrit Dīpāvalī.

Row of lamps / Diwali — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

दीपावली
Transliteration
Dīpāvalī
Pronunciation
/ ˈdiː.pə.və.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Deepavali stands.

Deepavali 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.

Deepavalis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Rama return Ayodhya 14-year exile / Krishna-Narakasura / Mahavira Moksha / Bandi Chhor
Sanskrit row-of-lamps + dīpa lamp + āvalī row + festival-of-lights + Rama return Ayodhya 14-year exile + Krishnas-victory-over-Narakasura + Lakshmi-Puja + Jain Mahavira Moksha-day + Sikh Bandi Chhor Divas Guru Hargobind + Kali Puja Bengal
Pan-Indic Diwali

Names connected to Deepavali.

The number behind Deepavali.

3

The Communicator

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