Entry № 9524 · Sanskrit origin

Shashi Shashi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHAH-shee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Moon"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "moon".

Shashi is from the Sanskrit Śaśī.

Moon — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

शशि
Transliteration
Śaśī
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃɑː.ʃi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shashi stands.

Shashi 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.

Shashis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Chandra moon god / Shashi Tharoor
Sanskrit moon + Chandra moon god + Hindu lunar calendar + Krishna Janmashtami + Shashi Kapoor 1938-2017 + Shashi Tharoor Indian author-politician
Hindu lunar

Names connected to Shashi.

The number behind Shashi.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shashi reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.