Entry № 5094 · Sanskrit origin

Kadambini Kadambini — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-DAHM-bee-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Row of clouds"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "row of clouds".

Kadambini is from the Sanskrit Kādambinī.

Row of clouds — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

कादम्बिनी
Transliteration
Kādambinī
Pronunciation
/ kəˈdɑːm.bi.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kadambini stands.

Kadambini 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.

Kadambinis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Banabhatta Kadambari 7th c. / Kadambini Ganguly first Indian woman doctor 1861-1923 / Kadamba Krishna tree
Sanskrit row-of-clouds cloud-cluster + kādamba cluster + Kādambarī Sanskrit-prose-romance by Bāṇabhaṭṭa 7th c. court-poet Emperor Harshavardhana + Kadambini Ganguly 1861-1923 first-Indian-woman-doctor Calcutta Medical College 1886 + Chandramukhi Basu + Kalidasa + Kadamba tree Neolamarckia cadamba Krishna
Hindu Kadambari

Names connected to Kadambini.

The number behind Kadambini.

1

The Leader

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