Entry № 7283 · Sanskrit origin

Navaratri Navaratri — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NAH-vah-RAH-tree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Nine nights / Devi festival"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "nine nights / devi festival".

Navaratri is from the Sanskrit Navarātri.

Nine nights / Devi festival — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Navaratri
Transliteration
Navarātri
Pronunciation
/ ˌnɑː.vəˈrɑː.tri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Navaratri stands.

Navaratri 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.

Navaratris before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Navaratri.

The number behind Navaratri.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Navaratri reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.