Entry № 2547 · Sanskrit origin

Dilrukshi Dilrukshi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ dil-ROOK-shee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Beloved heart (Sinhala + Dilrukshi Handunnetti journalist)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Sinhala)

A name that means "beloved heart (sinhala + dilrukshi handunnetti journalist)".

Dilrukshi is from the Sinhala / Sanskrit Dilrukshi — dil (heart, from Persian-Urdu) + rukshi (beloved, dear). Dilrukshi is one of the Sinhala feminine names — central to traditional Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist heritage.

Beloved heart (Sinhala-Persian-Urdu).

The name in its native script.

දිල්රුක්ශි
Transliteration
Dilrukshi
Pronunciation
/ dɪlˈruːk.ʃi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dilrukshi stands.

Dilrukshi 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.

Dilrukshis before her.

Real people
Dilrukshi Handunnetti
Sri Lankan investigative journalist + CIRSL director + IPI World Press Freedom Hero 2019 finalist.
born 1971
In fiction
Dilrukshi
Sinhala beloved heart.

Names connected to Dilrukshi.

The number behind Dilrukshi.

3

The Communicator

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