Entry № 8021 · Sanskrit origin

Patanjali Patanjali — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PAH-tahn-JAH-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Yoga-sage / Sanskrit-grammarian"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "yoga-sage / sanskrit-grammarian".

Patanjali is from the Sanskrit Pātañjalī.

Yoga-sage / Sanskrit-grammarian — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Patanjali
Transliteration
Pātañjalī
Pronunciation
/ ˌpɑː.tənˈdʒɑː.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Patanjali stands.

Patanjali 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.

Patanjalis before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Patanjali.

The number behind Patanjali.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Patanjali reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.