Entry № 2804 · Sanskrit origin

Ekadanti Ekadanti — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EH-kah-DAHN-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"One-tusked / Ganesha-Devi"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "one-tusked / ganesha-devi".

Ekadanti is from the Sanskrit Ekadantī.

One-tusked / Ganesha-Devi — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

एकदन्ती
Transliteration
Ekadantī
Pronunciation
/ ˌɛ.kɑːˈdɑːn.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ekadanti stands.

Ekadanti 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.

Ekadantis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ekadanta Ganesha one tusked / 108 names Ganapati Sahasranama Ganesha Purana Mudgala / 16 Ganesha Sumukha Ekadanta Kapila Gajakarnaka Lambodara Vikata Vighna-Raja Vinayaka Dhumra-Ketu Ganadhyaksha Bhalachandra Gajanana Vakratunda Shurpa-Karna Herambha Skanda-Purva-Ja / broke tusk write Mahabharata Vyasa / Ashta-Vinayaka Siddhatek Maharashtra
Sanskrit one-tusked Ganesha-consort + eka one + danta tusk + Ekadanta Ganesha-epithet + Gaṇapati-Sahasranama Ganesha-Purana + Mudgala-Purana + Ṣoḍaśa-Ganeśa Sumukha + Ekadanta + Kapila + Gajakarṇaka + Lambodara + Vikaṭa + Vighna-Rāja + Vināyaka + Dhūmra-Ketu + Gaṇādhyakṣa + Bhālacandra + Gajānana + Vakratuṇḍa + Śūrpa-Karṇa + Herambha + Skanda-Pūrva-Ja + Ekadantas-broken-tusk Mahabharata Vyāsa Ganesha Purana + Ekadanta-Śaraṇaṃ Prapadye + Siddhatek Maharashtra Aṣṭa-Vināyaka
Ekadanta Ganesha

Names connected to Ekadanti.

The number behind Ekadanti.

2

The Peacemaker

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