Entry № 10812 · Sanskrit origin

Tulasi Tulasi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Holy basil (sacred Hindu plant + Krishna devotion)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "holy basil (sacred hindu plant + krishna devotion)".

Tulasi is from the Sanskrit तुलसी (Tulasī — holy basil) — from Sanskrit tulā (incomparable). Tulasi is one of the Sanskrit feminine names — central to traditional Hindu Vaishnava heritage. Sanskrit feminine name reflecting Hindu devotional-botanical heritage.

Holy basil (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

तुलसी
Transliteration
Tulasī
Pronunciation
/ ˈtuː.lə.si /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tulasi stands.

Tulasi 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.

Tulasis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Tulasi / Tulsi-Vrinda
Holy basil + consort of Krishna/Vishnu + Tulasi Vivah ritual marriage.
Bhagavata Purana

Names connected to Tulasi.

The number behind Tulasi.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tulasi reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.