Entry № 4805 · Sanskrit origin

Janani Janani — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ jah-NAH-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Mother, life-giver"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "mother, life-giver".

Janani (जननी) is the Sanskrit and Tamil word for "mother" — particularly the one who gives life. The phrase Janani Janmabhumishcha Swargaadapi Gariyasi ("Mother and motherland are greater than heaven") is a famous Sanskrit saying.

Janani is widely used in South India.

Mother. The Sanskrit life-giver.

The name in its native script.

जननी
Transliteration
Jananī
Pronunciation
/ dʒəˈnɑː.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Janani stands.

Janani 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.

Jananis before her.

Real people
Janani Iyer
Indian actress.
born 1990
In fiction
Janani
Common in Tamil films.

Names connected to Janani.

The number behind Janani.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Janani reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.