Manimekalai is from the Tamil/Sanskrit மணிமேகலை — mani (jewel) + mekalai (girdle) — jewel-girdle. Manimekalai is the heroine of the Manimekalai (மணிமேகலை, c. 6th c.
Manimekalai 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Manimekalai reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.