Entry № 4928 · Marathi origin

Jijabai Jijabai — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JEE-jah-bai /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Marathi
Meaning
"Shivaji's mother (founder of Maratha Empire)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Marathi)

A name that means "shivaji's mother (founder of maratha empire)".

Jijabai is from the Marathi diminutive jiji (dear mother) and bai (lady). Jijabai Bhosale (1598-1674) was the mother of Shivaji Maharaj, founder of the Maratha Empire.

Featured in Maratha histories.

Shivaji's mother (founder of Maratha Empire) — a Marathi name.

The name in its native script.

जिजाबाई
Transliteration
Jijābāī
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒiː.dʒə.baɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jijabai stands.

Jijabai 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.

Jijabais before her.

Real people
Jijabai Bhosale
Mother of Shivaji.
1598 – 1674
In fiction
Jijabai
Featured in countless Marathi works.

Names connected to Jijabai.

The number behind Jijabai.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jijabai reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.