Entry № 6324 · Sanskrit origin

Malati Malati — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAH-lah-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Jasmine flower"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "jasmine flower".

Malati is from the Sanskrit Mālatī.

Jasmine flower — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

मालती
Transliteration
Mālatī
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɑː.lə.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Malati stands.

Malati 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.

Malatis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Bhavabhuti Malati-Madhava ~8th c. / Emperor Yashovarman Kannauj
Sanskrit Jasminum grandiflorum + Mālatī-Mādhava Sanskrit prakarana-play by Bhavabhūti ~8th c. at court of Yashovarman of Kannauj + classical Sanskrit dramatic + romantic-love-story Malati + Madhava
Sanskrit drama

Names connected to Malati.

The number behind Malati.

2

The Peacemaker

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