Entry № 9311 · Sanskrit origin

Sayantani Sayantani — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-YAHN-tah-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Evening / twilight"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "evening / twilight".

Sayantani is from the Sanskrit Sāyantanī.

Evening / twilight — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

सायन्तनी
Transliteration
Sāyantanī
Pronunciation
/ səˈjɑːn.tə.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sayantani stands.

Sayantani 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.

Sayantanis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Sayam-Sandhya evening / Tri-Sandhya Pratah Madhyahna Sayam / Gayatri Rigveda 3.62.10 / Aghamarshana Arghyapradana / Sayanacharya 14th c. Vidyaranyas brother Vijayanagara
Sanskrit evening twilight-related + sāyaṃ evening + Sāyaṃ-Sandhyā evening-Sandhya Tri-Sandhyā + Prātaḥ-Sandhyā + Madhyāhna-Sandhyā + Sandhyā-Vandana Gayatri-Mantra Rigveda 3.62.10 + Aghamarṣaṇa + Arghyapradāna + Sāyaṇācārya 14th c. Rigveda-commentator Vidyāraṇyas-brother Vijayanagara
Vedic Sandhya

Names connected to Sayantani.

The number behind Sayantani.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sayantani reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.