Entry № 7107 · Sanskrit origin

Nadi Nadi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NAH-dee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"River / channel"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "river / channel".

Nadi is from the Sanskrit Nadī.

River / channel — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

नदी
Transliteration
Nadī
Pronunciation
/ ˈnɑː.di /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nadi stands.

Nadi 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.

Nadis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Rigveda 10.75 Nadi-Stuti / Sapta-Sindhu 7 rivers / Nadis 72000 Ida Pingala Sushumna / Hatha Yoga Pradipika / Nadi-Vijnana Ayurveda pulse
Sanskrit river flowing-stream + nad to flow + Nadī sacred-river + Sapta-Sindhu Rigveda 10.75 Nadī-Stuti Sūkta + Nāḍī 72000-Nāḍīs Iḍā-Piṅgalā-Suṣumnā + Hatha Yoga Pradipika Svātmārāma ~15th c. + Śiva Saṃhitā + Gheranda-Saṃhitā + Nāḍī-Vijñāna Ayurveda pulse-diagnosis
Nadi Vedic

Names connected to Nadi.

The number behind Nadi.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nadi reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.