Entry № 2492 · Sanskrit origin

Dhumavati Dhumavati — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DOO-mah-VAH-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Smoke-widow / Tantric Devi"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "smoke-widow / tantric devi".

Dhumavati is from the Sanskrit Dhūmāvatī.

Smoke-widow / Tantric Devi — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

धूमावती
Transliteration
Dhūmāvatī
Pronunciation
/ ˌduː.mɑːˈvɑː.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dhumavati stands.

Dhumavati 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.

Dhumavatis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Dhumavati 7th of 10 Mahavidyas Kali Tara Tripurasundari Bhuvaneshvari Bhairavi Chinnamasta Dhumavati Bagalamukhi Matangi Kamalatmika / widow elder unattractive fierce / Alakshmi / crow empty chariot / dissolution poverty / Dhumavati-Sahasranama 1000 / Varanasi / Dhuma-Ketu comet Ketu
Sanskrit smoke-widow smoky-Devi + dhūma smoke + vatī possessing + Dhūmāvatī seventh Daśa-Mahāvidyā Kālī + Tārā + Tripurasundarī + Bhuvaneśvarī + Bhairavī + Chinnamastā + Dhūmāvatī + Bagalāmukhī + Mātaṅgī + Kamalātmikā + Dhūmāvatī widow-form + Dhūmāvatī Alakṣmī + Dhūmāvatī crow empty-chariot + Dhūmāvatī dissolution poverty + Dhūmāvatī-Sahasranāma 1000-names + Dhūmāvatī-Mātā-Ashtakam + Varanasi + Dhūma-Ketu
Dhumavati

Names connected to Dhumavati.

The number behind Dhumavati.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dhumavati reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.