Entry № 5493 · Sanskrit origin

Kinnari Kinnari — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KIN-nah-ree /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Celestial musician"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "celestial musician".

Kinnari is from the Sanskrit Kinnarī.

Celestial musician — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

किन्नरी

Transliteration: Kinnarī
Pronunciation: / ˈkɪn.nə.ri /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Kinnari stands.

Kinnari 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.

Namesakes

Kinnaris before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Kinnara-Kinnari Kubera Himavat / Angkor Wat Borobudur / Kinnari-vina instrument

Sanskrit female-Kinnara celestial-musician half-human-half-bird + Kinnara-Kinnarī Kubera inhabitants of Himavat + Ramayana + Mahabharata + Puranas + Kimnara Jātaka + Angkor Wat + Borobudur sculptures + Kalidasa + Kinnari-vīṇā ancient stringed instrument

Hindu Buddhist

Names connected to Kinnari.

Numerology

The number behind Kinnari.

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kinnari reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.