Entry № 6178 · Sanskrit origin

Madri Madri — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAD-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Mahabharata queen (Pandu's second wife, mother of Nakula and Sahadeva)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "mahabharata queen (pandu's second wife, mother of nakula and sahadeva)".

Madri (माद्री) means "of the Madra kingdom." The Madra princess who became Pandu's second wife in the Mahabharatamother of the youngest Pandavas Nakula and Sahadeva (begotten by the Ashvini twin gods through Kunti's mantra). When Pandu died from an embrace forbidden by a sage's curse, Madri performed sati on his pyre, blaming herself for his death. Among the most tragic figures in Indian epic literature.

Featured throughout the Mahabharata.

Pandu's second queen. Mother of Nakula and Sahadeva; performed sati on her husband's pyre.

The name in its native script.

माद्री
Transliteration
Mādrī
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɑːd.ri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Madri stands.

Madri 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.

Madris before her.

Real people
Madri
Mahabharata Madra princess.
In fiction
Madri
Mahabharata.

Names connected to Madri.

The number behind Madri.

9

The Giver

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