Entry № 4543 · Sanskrit origin

Indrayani Indrayani — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ in-DRAH-yah-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Sacred river"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "sacred river".

Indrayani is from the Sanskrit Indrāyaṇī.

Sacred river — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

इन्द्रायणी
Transliteration
Indrāyaṇī
Pronunciation
/ ɪnˈdrɑː.jə.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Indrayani stands.

Indrayani 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.

Indrayanis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Alandi Dnyaneshwar / Dehu Tukaram / Vari Pandharpur
Sanskrit sacred river + Indrayani tributary of Bhima through Alandi + Dehu Maharashtra + Warkari Sant + Alandi samadhi of Sant Dnyaneshwar 1275-1296 + Dehu birthplace of Sant Tukaram 1608-1650 + Vari Pandharpur ~1 million pilgrims
Marathi Bhakti

Names connected to Indrayani.

The number behind Indrayani.

5

The Seeker

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