Entry № 9085 · Sanskrit origin

Sakhi Sakhi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SAH-kee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Female friend"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "female friend".

Sakhi is from the Sanskrit Sakhī.

Female friend — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

सखी
Transliteration
Sakhī
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɑː.ki /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sakhi stands.

Sakhi 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.

Sakhis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Radha Ashta-Sakhis / Gita Govinda Jayadeva
Sanskrit female-friend companion + sakhi friend + Rādhās Aṣṭa-Sakhīs Lalitā + Viśākhā + Citrā + Indulekhā + Campakalatā + Raṅgadevī + Tuṅgavidyā + Sudevī + Jayadeva Gita Govinda
Krishna bhakti

Names connected to Sakhi.

The number behind Sakhi.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sakhi reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.