Entry № 3729 · Sanskrit origin

Godavari Godavari — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ goh-DAH-vah-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Godavari river / sacred"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "godavari river / sacred".

Godavari is from the Sanskrit Godāvarī.

Godavari river / sacred — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

गोदावरी
Transliteration
Godāvarī
Pronunciation
/ ɡoʊˈdɑː.və.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Godavari stands.

Godavari 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.

Godavaris before her.

Real people

In fiction
Godavari 1465 km Trimbakeshwar Nashik / Dakshina-Ganga / Panchavati Rama-Sita-Lakshmana / Pushkaram / Sapta-Sindhu
Sanskrit cow-giving sacred-river + go cow + dāvara giving + Godāvarī second-longest-river India 1465 km Trimbakeshwar Nashik-Maharashtra Maharashtra + Telangana + Andhra Pradesh + Dakṣiṇa-Gaṅgā Southern-Ganga + Pañcavaṭī Rama-Sita-Lakshmana 14-year exile Ramayana Aranya Kanda + Puṣkaram twelve-year + Sapta-Sindhu
Godavari sacred

Names connected to Godavari.

The number behind Godavari.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Godavari reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.