Entry № 10354 · Marathi origin

Tarabai Tarabai — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TAH-rah-bai /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Marathi
Meaning
"Star-lady (Maratha regent who fought Aurangzeb)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Marathi)

A name that means "star-lady (maratha regent who fought aurangzeb)".

Maharani Tarabai Bhosale (1675-1761) was the Maratha regent who, after her husband's death, fought Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb for seven years during the Mughal-Maratha Wars — coordinating Maratha resistance and preserving the empire. One of the great warrior-regents of Indian history.

Featured in Maratha chronicles.

Star-lady (Maratha regent who fought Aurangzeb) — a Marathi name.

The name in its native script.

ताराबाई
Transliteration
Tārābāī
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɑː.rə.baɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tarabai stands.

Tarabai 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.

Tarabais before her.

Real people
Maharani Tarabai Bhosale
Maratha regent.
1675 – 1761
In fiction
Tarabai
Featured in Maratha historical novels.

Names connected to Tarabai.

The number behind Tarabai.

7

The Seeker

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