Entry № 6681 · Sanskrit origin

Meerabai Meerabai — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MEE-rah-bai /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"16th-c. Krishna devotee Bhakti saint-poet"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Sanskrit)

A name that means "16th-c. krishna devotee bhakti saint-poet".

Meerabai is from the Sanskrit mīrā (मीरा — ocean) + bāī (बाई — Marwari feminine honorific). Mirabai (c. 1498-1547) was a Hindu mystic, Krishna devotee, Bhakti saint-poet, and princess of Mewar.

Ocean princess (Sanskrit). Mirabai — 16th-c.

The name in its native script.

मीराबाई
Transliteration
Mīrābāī
Pronunciation
/ ˈmiː.rəˌbaɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Meerabai stands.

Meerabai 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.

Meerabais before her.

Real people
Mirabai
16th-c. Krishna devotee + Bhakti saint-poet.
c. 1498 – 1547
In fiction
Meerabai
Hindu Bhakti saint.

Names connected to Meerabai.

The number behind Meerabai.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Meerabai reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.