Entry № 8551 · Bengali origin

Rashsundari Rashsundari — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RAHSH-soon-dah-ree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Bengali
Meaning
"First Bengali woman to write an autobiography"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern (Bengali)

A name that means "first bengali woman to write an autobiography".

Rashsundari Devi (1809-1899) wrote Amar Jiban ("My Life") — the first known autobiography by a woman in the Bengali language, published in 1876 when she was 67. A Brahmin housewife who taught herself to read in secret (literacy for women was forbidden in her time), she described her unprecedented journey to the printed word in luminous prose.

Featured in modern feminist anthologies of Bengali literature.

First Bengali woman to write an autobiography — a Bengali name.

The name in its native script.

রাশসুন্দরী
Transliteration
Rāśasundarī
Pronunciation
/ ˈræʃ.suːn.dər.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rashsundari stands.

Rashsundari 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.

Rashsundaris before her.

Real people
Rashsundari Devi
First Bengali woman autobiographer.
1809 – 1899
In fiction
Rashsundari
Amar Jiban.
1876

Names connected to Rashsundari.

The number behind Rashsundari.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rashsundari reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.