Entry № 10377 · Indigenous Australian origin

Tarni Tarni — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TAR-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Indigenous Australian
Meaning
"Salt water, ocean"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Kaurna)

A name that means "salt water, ocean".

Tarni is an Indigenous Australian name from the Kaurna language of the Adelaide Plains people, meaning "salt water" or "ocean."

Tarni is rising in modern Australia.

Salt water. The Kaurna ocean.

The name in its native script.

Tarni
Transliteration
Tarni
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɑːr.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tarni stands.

Tarni 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.

Tarnis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Tarni
Common in Australian fiction.

Names connected to Tarni.

The number behind Tarni.

8

The Visionary

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