Entry № 5273 · Sanskrit origin

Kasturi Kasturi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAHS-too-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Musk / sacred fragrance"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "musk / sacred fragrance".

Kasturi is from the Sanskrit Kastūrī.

Musk / sacred fragrance — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

कस्तूरी
Transliteration
Kastūrī
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɑːs.tuː.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kasturi stands.

Kasturi 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.

Kasturis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Krishna Kasturi-tilaka / Ayurveda Kasturi-Bhairava-Rasa / Kasturba Gandhi 1869-1944
Sanskrit musk musk-deer-fragrance + Kastūrī-tilaka Krishna-bhakti forehead-mark + Kalidasa + Panchagavya + Panchamrita sacred-offerings + Ayurvedic Kastūrī-Bhairava-Rasa mercurial + Kasturba Gandhi 1869-1944 wife-of-Mahatma-Gandhi affectionately Ba Mother-of-Nation
Hindu + Gandhi

Names connected to Kasturi.

The number behind Kasturi.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kasturi reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.