Entry № 6226 · Sanskrit origin

Mahamayi Mahamayi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAH-hah-MAH-yee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Great illusion / Devi-Maya"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "great illusion / devi-maya".

Mahamayi is from the Sanskrit Mahāmāyī.

Great illusion / Devi-Maya — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Mahamayi
Transliteration
Mahāmāyī
Pronunciation
/ ˌmɑː.hɑːˈmɑː.ji /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mahamayi stands.

Mahamayi 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.

Mahamayis before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Mahamayi.

The number behind Mahamayi.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mahamayi reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.