Entry № 7013 · Sanskrit origin

Mrinalini Mrinalini — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mri-nah-LEE-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Lotus stalk (Tagore's wife)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "lotus stalk (tagore's wife)".

Mrinalini (मृणालिनी) is the Sanskrit word for "a cluster of lotus stalks" — the slender supporting stem of the sacred lotus. Mrinalini Devi (1873-1902) was the wife of Rabindranath Tagore, the Nobel laureate poet — she died young at 29, inspiring some of his most poignant lyric poems.

Mrinalini Sarabhai (1918-2016) was the legendary Indian classical dancer.

Lotus stalk. Tagore's wife.

The name in its native script.

मृणालिनी
Transliteration
Mṛṇālinī
Pronunciation
/ ˌmriː.nɑːˈliː.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mrinalini stands.

Mrinalini 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.

Mrinalinis before her.

Real people
Mrinalini Devi
Tagore's wife.
1873 – 1902
Mrinalini Sarabhai
Indian classical dancer.
1918 – 2016
In fiction
Mrinalini
Featured in Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Mrinalini.
1869

Names connected to Mrinalini.

The number behind Mrinalini.

9

The Giver

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