Entry № 7947 · Sanskrit origin

Panchali Panchali — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PAHN-chah-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Draupadi princess of Panchala (Mahabharata)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "draupadi princess of panchala (mahabharata)".

Panchali is from the Sanskrit Pāñcālī.

Draupadi princess of Panchala (Mahabharata) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

पाञ्चाली
Transliteration
Pāñcālī
Pronunciation
/ ˈpɑːn.tʃə.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Panchali stands.

Panchali 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.

Panchalis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Draupadi Svayamvara Vastraharan / Palace of Illusions Divakaruni
Sanskrit princess-of-Panchala + Draupadi common-wife of five Pandavas + Draupadi Svayamvara + Vastraharan + Kurukshetra War + Chitra Banerjee Divakarunis Palace of Illusions 2008
Mahabharata

Names connected to Panchali.

The number behind Panchali.

1

The Leader

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