Entry № 10345 · Sanskrit origin

Tapaswini Tapaswini — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TAH-pahs-vee-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Female ascetic"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "female ascetic".

Tapaswini is from the Sanskrit Tapasvinī.

Female ascetic — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

तपस्विनी
Transliteration
Tapasvinī
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɑː.pəs.vi.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tapaswini stands.

Tapaswini 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.

Tapaswinis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Bhagavad Gita 17:14-19 threefold Tapas / Parvati Kumarasambhava
Sanskrit female-ascetic austerity-practicing + tapas austerity heat + Rigveda + Bhagavad Gita 17:14-19 threefold Śārīra + Vāṅmaya + Mānasa + Parvati austerities Kalidasa Kumārasambhava + Tapaswini Mata Bengali saint
Hindu ascetic

Names connected to Tapaswini.

The number behind Tapaswini.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tapaswini reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.