Entry № 6905 · Sanskrit origin

Mirabai Mirabai — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MEE-rah-bye /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Sea / wonder (the 16th-century Krishna mystic + Mirabai Chanu Olympic silver)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Sanskrit)

A name that means "sea / wonder (the 16th-century krishna mystic + mirabai chanu olympic silver)".

Mirabai is from the Sanskrit mīrā (sea, ocean, or "wonderful" in Rajasthani) + bāī (Hindi honorific for a respected woman). Mirabai (c. "Mere to Giridhar Gopal" (My only beloved is Krishna) is among the most-recorded Indian devotional songs of the 20th century.

Sea / wonder (the 16th-century Krishna mystic + Mirabai Chanu Olympic silver) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

मीराबाई
Transliteration
Mīrābāī
Pronunciation
/ ˈmiː.rə.baɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mirabai stands.

Mirabai 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.

Mirabais before her.

Real people
Mirabai
Hindu Krishna devotional poet.
c. 1498 – 1547
Mirabai Chanu
Indian Olympic weightlifter.
born 1994
In fiction
Mirabai
Meera.
1979

Names connected to Mirabai.

The number behind Mirabai.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mirabai reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.