Entry № 8044 · Sanskrit origin

Pavitri Pavitri — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ pah-VEE-tree /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Pure / sacred grass"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "pure / sacred grass".

Pavitri is from the Sanskrit Pavitrī.

Pure / sacred grass — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

पवित्री

Transliteration: Pavitrī
Pronunciation: / pəˈviː.tri /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Pavitri stands.

Pavitri 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.

Namesakes

Pavitris before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Kusha grass Vedic Yajna / Pavitra-Ekadashi / Bhagavad Gita 10:12

Sanskrit pure sacred-purificatory + pū to purify + Pavitra purificatory-Kusha-grass Vedic Yajna + Pavitrāropaṇa purification-ceremony + Pavitra-Ekādaśī Shravana-Shukla-Ekadashi Vaishnava + Bhagavad Gita 10:12 paraṃ brahma paraṃ dhāma pavitraṃ paramaṃ bhavān

Hindu purity

Names connected to Pavitri.

Numerology

The number behind Pavitri.

The Seeker

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