Entry № 7928 · Sanskrit origin

Pallavi Pallavi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PAHL-lah-vee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Musical composition opening (Carnatic)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "musical composition opening (carnatic)".

Pallavi is from the Sanskrit Pallavī.

Musical composition opening (Carnatic) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

पल्लवी
Transliteration
Pallavī
Pronunciation
/ ˈpɑːl.lə.vi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pallavi stands.

Pallavi 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.

Pallavis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Carnatic Trinity Tyagaraja Dikshitar Syama Sastri / Kriti Pallavi
Sanskrit new-shoot young-leaf + first section of Carnatic Kriti + Anupallavi + Charanam + Tyagaraja + Muthuswami Dikshitar + Syama Sastri Trinity of Carnatic Music ~18th-19th c. + Pallavi-Anupallavi Kannada film
Carnatic music

Names connected to Pallavi.

The number behind Pallavi.

1

The Leader

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