Entry № 5148 · Sanskrit origin

Kali Kali — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAH-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Hindu goddess of time, destruction, and liberation"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "hindu goddess of time, destruction, and liberation".

Kali (काली) is from the Sanskrit kāla (time, death, black).

Bengal's Kalighat temple in Kolkata is one of the 51 Shakti Peethas.

Hindu goddess of time, destruction, and liberation — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

काली
Transliteration
Kālī
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɑː.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kali stands.

Kali 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.

Kalis before her.

Real people
Kali
Hindu goddess.
In fiction
Kali

Names connected to Kali.

The number behind Kali.

6

The Nurturer

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