Entry № 4802 · Sanskrit origin

Janaki Janaki — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JAH-nah-kee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Daughter of Janaka (Sita)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "daughter of janaka (sita)".

Janaki (जानकी) is an epithet of Sita — meaning "daughter of Janaka," the king of Mithila who adopted her. Sita is the heroine of the Ramayana, wife of Rama.

Janaki is widely used across India.

Sita. The Ramayana heroine.

The name in its native script.

जानकी
Transliteration
Jānakī
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒɑː.nə.ki /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Janaki stands.

Janaki 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.

Janakis before her.

Real people
S. Janaki
Indian playback singer.
born 1938
In fiction
Janaki
Sita in the Ramayana.
Hindu epic

Names connected to Janaki.

The number behind Janaki.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Janaki reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.