Entry № 5925 · Sanskrit origin

Lilavati Lilavati — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LEE-lah-vah-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Playful (Bhaskara II daughter)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "playful (bhaskara ii daughter)".

Lilavati is from the Sanskrit Līlāvatī.

Playful (Bhaskara II daughter) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

लीलावती
Transliteration
Līlāvatī
Pronunciation
/ ˈliː.lə.və.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lilavati stands.

Lilavati 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.

Lilavatis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Bhaskara II Lilavati / Krishna-Vishnu Lila
Sanskrit playful-woman divine-sport + Bhāskara IIs 1114-1185 daughter + Sanskrit mathematical treatise ~1150 covering arithmetic + algebra + geometry + progression + trigonometry + Līlā divine-play of Krishna-Radha-Vishnu + Bhagavata Purana
Indian mathematics

Names connected to Lilavati.

The number behind Lilavati.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lilavati reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.