Entry № 8870 · Sanskrit origin

Roshni Roshni — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ROHSH-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Light"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "light".

Roshni is from the Sanskrit Roshnī. central in pan-Persian + Urdu light-metaphor heritage.

central in pan-Persian + Urdu light-metaphor heritage

The name in its native script.

रोशनी
Transliteration
Roshnī
Pronunciation
/ ˈroʊʃ.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Roshni stands.

Roshni 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.

Roshnis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Roshniyya / An-Nūr
Hindi/Persian light brightness + Persian roshan bright + An-Nūr The Light 99 Names of God + Roshniyya Sufi-Pashtun mystical movement 16th c. + pan-Persian + Urdu
Persian + Sufi

Names connected to Roshni.

The number behind Roshni.

2

The Peacemaker

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