Entry № 9303 · Sanskrit origin

Savitri Savitri — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-VEE-tree /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Mahabharata heroine who outwitted Yama"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "mahabharata heroine who outwitted yama".

Savitri (सावित्री) is from the Vedic deity Savitr (the impeller, the sun). The archetype of devotional wifely strength in Indian tradition — Vat Savitri Vrata is named for her.

Mahabharata heroine who outwitted Yama — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

सावित्री
Transliteration
Sāvitrī
Pronunciation
/ səˈviː.tri /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Savitri stands.

Savitri 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.

Savitris before her.

Real people
Savitribai Phule
Indian social reformer.
1831 – 1897
In fiction
Savitri
Mahabharata; Sri Aurobindo's Savitri.

Names connected to Savitri.

The number behind Savitri.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Savitri reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.