Entry № 5114 · Sanskrit origin

Kaikeyi Kaikeyi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kai-KAY-yee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Ramayana queen of Kekaya"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "ramayana queen of kekaya".

Kaikeyi is from the Sanskrit Kaikeyī (कैकेयी — princess of the Kekaya kingdom). Princess Kaikeyi — Hindu heritage naming.

and modern feminist mythology.

Princess of Kekaya (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

कैकेयी
Transliteration
Kaikeyī
Pronunciation
/ kaɪˈkeɪ.ji /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kaikeyi stands.

Kaikeyi 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.

Kaikeyis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kaikeyi (Ramayana)
Ramayana queen + two boons.

Names connected to Kaikeyi.

The number behind Kaikeyi.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kaikeyi reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.