Entry № 9089 · Sanskrit origin

Sakshi Sakshi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SAHK-shee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Witness"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "witness".

Sakshi (साक्षी) is the Sanskrit word for "witness" — the silent observer, an important concept in Vedanta philosophy referring to pure awareness.

Sakshi Malik (born 1992) is the Indian Olympic bronze-medal wrestler — the first Indian woman to win an Olympic wrestling medal.

Witness. The Vedantic pure awareness.

The name in its native script.

साक्षी
Transliteration
Sākṣī
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɑːk.ʃi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sakshi stands.

Sakshi 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.

Sakshis before her.

Real people
Sakshi Malik
Indian Olympic wrestler.
born 1992
In fiction
Sakshi
Common in Indian films.

Names connected to Sakshi.

The number behind Sakshi.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sakshi reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.