Entry № 11046 · Sanskrit origin

Vahini Vahini — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VAH-hee-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"River / flowing"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "river / flowing".

Vahini is from the Sanskrit Vāhinī.

River / flowing — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

वाहिनी
Transliteration
Vāhinī
Pronunciation
/ ˈvɑː.hi.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Vahini stands.

Vahini 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.

Vahinis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Rigveda 10.75 Nadi-Stuti Sapta-Sindhu / Sri Sathya Sai Baba Vahini texts / Cauvery-Vahini
Sanskrit river flowing-stream army + vah to flow + Sapta-Sindhu seven-rivers Rigveda Nadī-Stuti Sūkta 10.75 + Ganga + Yamuna + Sarasvati + Godavari + Narmada + Sindhu + Kaveri + Sri Sathya Sai Baba Rāmakathā-Rasavāhinī + Prema-Vāhinī + Prasanna-Vāhinī + Cauvery-Vāhinī
Vedic rivers

Names connected to Vahini.

The number behind Vahini.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vahini reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.