Entry № 10368 · Sanskrit origin

Tarangini Tarangini — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tah-rahn-GEE-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Wave / river"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "wave / river".

Tarangini is from the Sanskrit Taraṅgiṇī.

Wave / river — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

तरङ्गिणी
Transliteration
Taraṅgiṇī
Pronunciation
/ tɑːrənˈɡiː.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tarangini stands.

Tarangini 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.

Taranginis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kalhana Rajatarangini 12th c. / Rasa-Tarangini
Sanskrit wavy-one river possessing-waves + Rāja Taraṅgiṇī River-of-Kings Kashmiri kings by Kalhana ~12th c. + Rasa-Taraṅgiṇī Sanskrit metrical treatise
Kashmiri history

Names connected to Tarangini.

The number behind Tarangini.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tarangini reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.