Entry № 7197 · Sanskrit origin

Nandini Nandini — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nan-DEE-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Joyful / sacred cow (Hindu mythology)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "joyful / sacred cow (hindu mythology)".

Nandini is from the Sanskrit nandinī (joyful, daughter, the sacred cow). Nandini Mukherjee — Indian academic. Nandini Manjrekar — Indian developmental economist. Nandini Sundar — Indian sociologist; Padma Shri (2007). Nandini Saraf — Indian author. Nandini Bedi — Indian fashion designer. Nandini is also the name of the Karnataka Milk Federation's iconic brand — one of India's largest dairy cooperatives serving 2+ million daily customers.

Joyful / sacred cow.

The name in its native script.

नन्दिनी
Transliteration
Nandinī
Pronunciation
/ nænˈdiː.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nandini stands.

Nandini 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.

Nandinis before her.

Real people
Nandini Satpathy
First female Odisha CM.
1931 – 2006
Nandini Sundar
Indian Padma Shri sociologist.
modern
In fiction
Nandini
Hindu sacred cow + wish-granter.

Names connected to Nandini.

The number behind Nandini.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nandini reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.