Entry № 8504 · Marathi origin

Ramabai Ramabai — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RAH-mah-bai /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Marathi
Meaning
"Indian educator-reformer (Pandita Ramabai)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Marathi)

A name that means "indian educator-reformer (pandita ramabai)".

Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922) was an Indian social reformer, scholar of Sanskrit (the first woman granted the title Pandita at Calcutta University), and Christian convert. A delegate to the U.S. National Council of Women in 1888.

Honored on a 1989 Indian postage stamp.

Indian educator-reformer (Pandita Ramabai) — a Marathi name.

The name in its native script.

रमाबाई
Transliteration
Ramābāī
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɑː.mə.baɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ramabai stands.

Ramabai 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.

Ramabais before her.

Real people
Pandita Ramabai
Indian Sanskrit scholar and reformer.
1858 – 1922
In fiction
Ramabai
Subject of Indian biographical works.

Names connected to Ramabai.

The number behind Ramabai.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ramabai reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.