Entry № 6343 · Sanskrit origin

Malini Malini — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mah-LEE-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Garland-maker / flower-decked"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "garland-maker / flower-decked".

Malini is from the Sanskrit Mālinī.

Garland-maker / flower-decked — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Malini
Transliteration
Mālinī
Pronunciation
/ mɑːˈliː.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Malini stands.

Malini 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.

Malinis before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Malini.

The number behind Malini.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Malini reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.