Entry № 10313 · Sanskrit origin

Tandavi Tandavi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TAHN-dah-vee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Cosmic-dance / Nataraja"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "cosmic-dance / nataraja".

Tandavi is from the Sanskrit Tāṇḍavī.

Cosmic-dance / Nataraja — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

ताण्डवी
Transliteration
Tāṇḍavī
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɑːn.də.vi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tandavi stands.

Tandavi 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.

Tandavis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Shiva 7 Tandavas / Nataraja Chidambaram / Bharata Natyashastra 108 Karanas
Sanskrit related-to-cosmic-dance + tāṇḍava cosmic-dance + Shivas cosmic-dance seven-forms Ānanda-Tāṇḍava + Sandhyā-Tāṇḍava + Uma-Tāṇḍava + Gaurī-Tāṇḍava + Kālikā-Tāṇḍava + Tripura-Tāṇḍava + Saṃhāra-Tāṇḍava + Naṭarāja Chidambaram + Bharatas Nāṭyaśāstra 108-Karanas
Hindu Nataraja

Names connected to Tandavi.

The number behind Tandavi.

8

The Visionary

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