Entry № 2656 · Sanskrit origin

Draupadi Draupadi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DRAW-pah-dee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Mahabharata heroine (wife of the five Pandavas)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "mahabharata heroine (wife of the five pandavas)".

Draupadi (द्रौपदी) means "daughter of Drupada," king of Panchala. Her public disrobing in the Kuru court — where Krishna miraculously extended her sari to protect her dignity — was the immediate cause of the Kurukshetra War. Her vow to keep her hair loose until she could bind it with the blood of her humiliators is among the most charged moments in Hindu literature.

Born of fire.

The name in its native script.

द्रौपदी
Transliteration
Draupadī
Pronunciation
/ ˈdrɔː.pə.di /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Draupadi stands.

Draupadi 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.

Draupadis before her.

Real people
Draupadi Murmu
President of India.
born 1958
In fiction
Draupadi
Wife of the Pandavas in the Mahabharata.

Names connected to Draupadi.

The number behind Draupadi.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Draupadi reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.