Entry № 6387 · Sanskrit origin

Manimekalai Manimekalai — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mah-nee-MEH-kah-lai /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Tamil epic (Buddhist Tamil heroine)"
Syllables
5
First recorded
Medieval (Tamil)

A name that means "tamil epic (buddhist tamil heroine)".

Manimekalai is from the Tamil/Sanskrit மணிமேகலை — mani (jewel) + mekalai (girdle) — jewel-girdle. Manimekalai is the heroine of the Manimekalai (மணிமேகலை, c. 6th c.

Jewel-girdle (Tamil-Sanskrit). Manimekalai (c. 6th c.

The name in its native script.

மணிமேகலை
Transliteration
Maṇimēkalai
Pronunciation
/ ˌmɑː.niːˈmɛ.kə.laɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Manimekalai stands.

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.

Manimekalais before her.

Real people

In fiction
Manimekalai (Tamil epic)
Buddhist Tamil epic heroine c. 6th c. CE.
c. 6th c.

Names connected to Manimekalai.

The number behind Manimekalai.

8

The Visionary

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.