Entry № 6402 · Sanskrit origin

Manjushri Manjushri — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAHN-joo-shree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Bodhisattva of Wisdom"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "bodhisattva of wisdom".

Manjushri is from the Sanskrit Mañjuśrī.

Bodhisattva of Wisdom — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

मञ्जुश्री
Transliteration
Mañjuśrī
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɑːn.dʒuːˈʃri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Manjushri stands.

Manjushri 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.

Manjushris before her.

Real people

In fiction
Manjushri Bodhisattva of Wisdom / Manjushri-Nama-Samgiti / Wu-tai-shan China
Sanskrit Sweet-Auspicious Bodhisattva-of-Wisdom + Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva of Prajñā-Wisdom + sword-of-discrimination + book-of-Prajñāpāramitā + alongside Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva-of-Compassion + Vajrapani Bodhisattva-of-Power three-family-protectors Mahayana + Vajrayana + Mañjuśrī-Nāma-Saṃgīti Tibetan tantric + Wu-tai-shan China sacred
Mahayana Buddhism

Names connected to Manjushri.

The number behind Manjushri.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Manjushri reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.