Entry № 9068 · Sanskrit origin

Sailaputri Sailaputri — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHY-lah-POO-tree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Daughter of mountain / Nava-Durga"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "daughter of mountain / nava-durga".

Sailaputri is from the Sanskrit Śailaputrī.

Daughter of mountain / Nava-Durga — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

शैलपुत्री
Transliteration
Śailaputrī
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃaɪ.lɑːˈpuː.tri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sailaputri stands.

Sailaputri 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.

Sailaputris before her.

Real people

In fiction
Shailaputri 1st Navadurga Sharad-Navaratri Ashvin-Shukla-Pratipada / Parvati reborn from Sati / trident lotus Nandi white / Moon Muladhara / Devi Mahatmya
Sanskrit daughter-of-mountain Parvati + śaila mountain + putrī daughter + Śailaputrī first of Nava-Durga Sharad-Navaratri Ashvin-Shukla-Pratipada + Parvati reborn Himavat after Sati-immolation + trident-and-lotus riding-Nandi-bull white + Moon-ruling + Muladhara-Chakra + Om Devi Śailaputryai Namaḥ + Devi Mahatmya + Devi Bhagavata
Navadurga Shailaputri

Names connected to Sailaputri.

The number behind Sailaputri.

9

The Giver

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