Entry № 5156 · Sanskrit origin

Kalindi Kalindi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-LIN-dee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Yamuna river goddess (Krishna's queen)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "yamuna river goddess (krishna's queen)".

Kalindi is from the Sanskrit कालिन्दी (Kālindī — daughter of Mount Kalinda, the Yamuna river). Kalindi is one of the Sanskrit feminine names — central to traditional Hindu Vaishnava heritage.

Yamuna river goddess (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

कालिन्दी
Transliteration
Kālindī
Pronunciation
/ kəˈlɪn.di /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kalindi stands.

Kalindi 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.

Kalindis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Yamuna / Kalindi
Sacred river goddess + daughter of Surya sun-god + sister of Yama + one of Ashta Bharya Eight Chief Queens of Krishna.
Bhagavata Purana

Names connected to Kalindi.

The number behind Kalindi.

6

The Nurturer

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