Entry № 9053 · Sanskrit origin

Saheli Saheli — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-HEH-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Female friend"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "female friend".

Saheli is from the Sanskrit Sahelī.

Female friend — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

सहेली
Transliteration
Sahelī
Pronunciation
/ səˈhɛ.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Saheli stands.

Saheli 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.

Sahelis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Hindi Bollywood Saheli / Urdu ghazal
Sanskrit/Hindi female-friend companion + Sanskrit sakhī friend + Hindi + Urdu friendship + classical Urdu ghazal + Hindi film-song + Saheli 1965 Hindi film + Saheli-o-Saheli invocation
Hindi Urdu poetry

Names connected to Saheli.

The number behind Saheli.

9

The Giver

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