Entry № 6371 · Sanskrit origin

Mandakini Mandakini — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAHN-dah-kee-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Heavenly Ganges (iconic Mandakini Bollywood Ram Teri Ganga Maili)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "heavenly ganges (iconic mandakini bollywood ram teri ganga maili)".

Mandakini is from the Sanskrit Mandākinī. Princess Mandakini — Hindu heritage naming.

Heavenly Ganges (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

मन्दाकिनी
Transliteration
Mandākinī
Pronunciation
/ ˌmɑːn.dɑːˈkiː.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mandakini stands.

Mandakini 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.

Mandakinis before her.

Real people
Mandakini (Yasmeen Joseph)
Iconic Bollywood Ram Teri Ganga Maili (Raj Kapoor 1985).
born 1969
In fiction
Mandakini (Ganges)
Hindu heavenly Ganges.

Names connected to Mandakini.

The number behind Mandakini.

4

The Builder

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