Entry № 9900 · Sanskrit origin

Sonali Sonali — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soh-NAH-lee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Golden (iconic Sonali Bendre Bollywood)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Sanskrit)

A name that means "golden (iconic sonali bendre bollywood)".

Sonali is from the Sanskrit sonālī (सोनाली — golden, of gold). Princess Sonali — Hindu heritage naming.

Golden (iconic Sonali Bendre Bollywood) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

सोनाली
Transliteration
Sonālī
Pronunciation
/ soʊˈnɑː.li /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sonali stands.

Sonali 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.

Sonalis before her.

Real people
Sonali Bendre Behl
Iconic Bollywood Sarfarosh + Filmfare Best Female Debut.
born 1975
Sonali Kulkarni
Indian National Film Award Special Jury 1999.
born 1974
In fiction
Sonali
Sanskrit for golden.

Names connected to Sonali.

The number behind Sonali.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sonali reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.