Entry № 8568 · Sanskrit origin

Ratnavali Ratnavali — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RAHT-nah-VAH-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Jewel garland / Harsha drama"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "jewel garland / harsha drama".

Ratnavali is from the Sanskrit Ratnāvalī.

Jewel garland / Harsha drama — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

रत्नावली
Transliteration
Ratnāvalī
Pronunciation
/ ˌrɑːt.nɑːˈvɑː.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ratnavali stands.

Ratnavali 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.

Ratnavalis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Harshavardhana 590-647 Ratnavali 4 act Nataka / Priyadarshika Nagananda / Udayana Vatsa Vasavadatta / Nagarjuna Precious Garland 100 verses
Sanskrit jewel-necklace jewel-garland + ratna jewel + āvalī row + Ratnāvalī Sanskrit-drama four-act Nāṭaka Emperor Harshavardhana 590-647 + Priyadarśikā + Nāgānanda + Ceylon-princess wife-of-Udayana Vatsa-kingdom + Vasavadatta + Harshavardhana Buddhist-Emperor patron-of-Xuanzang Nalanda + Nāgārjuna Precious-Garland Ratnāvalī 100-verses
Harsha Nagarjuna

Names connected to Ratnavali.

The number behind Ratnavali.

8

The Visionary

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