Entry № 6246 · Sanskrit origin

Mahishmati Mahishmati — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAH-heesh-mah-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Ancient Mahishmati / Baahubali"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "ancient mahishmati / baahubali".

Mahishmati is from the Sanskrit Māhiṣmatī.

Ancient Mahishmati / Baahubali — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

माहिष्मती
Transliteration
Māhiṣmatī
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɑː.hiːʃ.mə.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mahishmati stands.

Mahishmati 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.

Mahishmatis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Mahishmati Haihaya Kartavirya-Arjuna / Parashuram avatar / Baahubali film
Sanskrit related-to-Mahishmati + ancient-capital of Haihaya-dynasty Mahabharata + capital of Kartavirya-Arjuna 1000-armed-king + defeated by Parashuram-Vishnu-avatar in Kartavirya-Vadha + Mahabharata + Vishnu Purana + Bhagavata Purana + modern Maheshwar Madhya Pradesh Narmada + Baahubali 2015-2017 Telugu franchise
Mahabharata + film

Names connected to Mahishmati.

The number behind Mahishmati.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mahishmati reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.