Entry № 6736 · Indonesian origin

Melati Melati — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ meh-LAH-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Indonesian
Meaning
"Jasmine"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Indonesian)

A name that means "jasmine".

Melati is the Indonesian and Malay word for the jasmine flower — the national flower of Indonesia (melati putih).

Jasmine. The Indonesian national flower.

The name in its native script.

Melati
Transliteration
Melati
Pronunciation
/ məˈlɑː.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Melati stands.

Melati 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.

Melatis before her.

Real people
Melati Wijsen
Indonesian environmental activist.
born 2001
In fiction
Melati
Common in Indonesian fiction.

Names connected to Melati.

The number behind Melati.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Melati reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.