Entry № 4622 · Sanskrit origin

Iravati Iravati — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-rah-VAH-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"River goddess / Ravi River"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "river goddess / ravi river".

Iravati is from the Sanskrit इरावती (Irāvatī — river, abounding in waters). Iravati is one of the Sanskrit feminine names — central to traditional Hindu Vedic heritage.

River goddess / Ravi River (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

इरावती
Transliteration
Irāvatī
Pronunciation
/ iː.rɑːˈvɑː.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Iravati stands.

Iravati 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.

Iravatis before her.

Real people
Irawati Karve
Indian anthropologist + first woman Indian sociology PhD + Yuganta 1967 Mahabharata reinterpretation.
1905 – 1970
In fiction
Iravati / Ravi River
One of Five Rivers of Punjab + sacred Rigvedic river.

Names connected to Iravati.

The number behind Iravati.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Iravati reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.