Entry № 3563 · Sanskrit origin

Gautami Gautami — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GOW-tah-mee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Gautami Ganga / Godavari"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "gautami ganga / godavari".

Gautami is from the Sanskrit Gautamī.

Gautami Ganga / Godavari — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

गौतमी
Transliteration
Gautamī
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡaʊ.tə.mi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Gautami stands.

Gautami 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.

Gautamis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ahalya-Gautama / Godavari Dakshina-Ganga 1465 km / Nashik-Trimbakeshwar Jyotirlinga
Sanskrit wife-of-Gautama + Ahalyā wife-of-Rishi-Gautama + Gautamī-Gaṅgā Godavari-river as Rishi Gautamas descent + Ramayana Bala Kanda Ahalya-Gautama + Godāvarī Dakshina-Ganga second-longest-river India ~1,465 km + Bhadrachalam + Nashik-Trimbakeshwar 12 Jyotirlingas
Ramayana + Godavari

Names connected to Gautami.

The number behind Gautami.

9

The Giver

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