Entry № 2568 · Sanskrit origin

Diti Diti — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DEE-tee /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Mother of Daityas"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "mother of daityas".

Diti is from the Sanskrit Diti.

Mother of Daityas — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

दिति

Transliteration: Diti
Pronunciation: / ˈdiː.ti /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Diti stands.

Diti 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.

Namesakes

Ditis before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Diti mother of Daityas / Samudra Manthan

Sanskrit primordial mother of Daityas + sister of Aditi mother of Adityas + wife of Sage Kashyapa + Rigveda + Mahabharata + Bhagavata Purana + Deva-Daitya duality + Samudra Manthan

Vedic mythology

Names connected to Diti.

Numerology

The number behind Diti.

The Nurturer

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