Entry № 10937 · Sanskrit origin

Upali Upali — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ oo-PAH-lee /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Buddhist Vinaya master"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "buddhist vinaya master".

Upali is from the Sanskrit Upāli.

Buddhist Vinaya master — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

उपाली

Transliteration: Upāli
Pronunciation: / ʊˈpɑː.li /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Upali stands.

Upali 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.

Namesakes

Upalis before her.

Real people

—

In fiction

Upali foremost Vinaya First Buddhist Council 483 BCE / Saptaparni Cave Rajgriha / Ashoka Bhabru Edict

Sanskrit Buddhist-monk + Upāli among Buddhas ten-great-disciples + Vinaya-Piṭaka foremost-authority monk-discipline-and-monastic-rules recited at First Buddhist Council ~483 BCE Saptaparni Cave Rajgriha Kāśyapa presidency + born-barber-caste rejection-of-caste-hierarchy + Pali Canon Vinaya-Piṭaka + Ashokas Bhabru Edict ~250 BCE

Buddhist Vinaya

Names connected to Upali.

Numerology

The number behind Upali.

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Upali reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.