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Rajani Rajani — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ rah-JAH-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Night"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "night".

Rajani is from the Hindi / Nepalese / Sanskrit रजनी (Rajanī — night). Rajani is one of the Hindi + Nepalese feminine names — central to traditional Hindu-Indian heritage. The Sanskrit rajanī (night) is central to Sanskrit classical literature Hindu cosmological + Vedic astronomical heritage.

Night.

The name in its native script.

रजनी
Transliteration
Rajanī
Pronunciation
/ rəˈdʒɑː.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rajani stands.

Rajani 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.

Rajanis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Rajani Thiranagama
Sri Lankan Tamil human rights activist + The Broken Palmyra 1990.

Names connected to Rajani.

The number behind Rajani.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rajani reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.