Entry № 4824 · Sanskrit origin

Janvi Janvi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JAHN-vee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Daughter of Ganga (the Ganges)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "daughter of ganga (the ganges)".

Janvi (जान्हवी) is the Sanskrit epithet of the goddess Ganga — daughter of the sage Jahnu. The sacred Ganges River is personified as Janhvi.

Janhvi Kapoor (born 1997), daughter of the late Sridevi, is the contemporary Bollywood actress.

Daughter of the Ganges. The sacred Indian river.

The name in its native script.

जान्हवी
Transliteration
Jānhavī
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒɑːn.vi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Janvi stands.

Janvi 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.

Janvis before her.

Real people
Janhvi Kapoor
Indian Bollywood actress.
born 1997
In fiction
Janvi
Common in Indian films.

Names connected to Janvi.

The number behind Janvi.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Janvi reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.