Entry № 6677 · Sanskrit origin

Meenakshi Meenakshi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mee-NAHK-shee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Fish-eyed (iconic South Indian goddess + temple)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "fish-eyed (iconic south indian goddess + temple)".

Meenakshi is from the Sanskrit mīna (fish) + akṣi (eye) — "fish-eyed" (referring to her distinctive large beautiful eyes). Meenakshi Iyer — modern Indian academic.

Fish-eyed (iconic South Indian goddess + temple) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

मीनाक्षी
Transliteration
Mīnākṣī
Pronunciation
/ miˈnɑːk.ʃi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Meenakshi stands.

Meenakshi 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.

Meenakshis before her.

Real people
Meenakshi Lekhi
Indian Minister of State.
born 1967
Meenakshi Wadhwa
Indian-American NASA scientist.
born 1968
In fiction
Goddess Meenakshi
Madurai Hindu goddess + UNESCO temple candidate.

Names connected to Meenakshi.

The number behind Meenakshi.

4

The Builder

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