Entry № 8224 · Sanskrit origin

Poonam Poonam — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ POO-nahm /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Full moon"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "full moon".

Poonam is from the Sanskrit Pūnam.

Full moon — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

पूनम
Transliteration
Pūnam
Pronunciation
/ ˈpuː.nəm /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Poonam stands.

Poonam 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.

Poonams before her.

Real people

In fiction
Buddha Purnima / Vat Purnima
Hindi full-moon night + Buddha Purnima Vaisakha Buddhas birth + enlightenment + parinirvana + Guru Purnima + Sharad Purnima harvest + Vat Purnima Hindu wives fast for husbands
Hindu festival

Names connected to Poonam.

The number behind Poonam.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Poonam reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.