Entry № 11649 · Sanskrit origin

Yajnavati Yajnavati — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YAHJ-nah-vah-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Sacrifice-performer / Yajnavalkya"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "sacrifice-performer / yajnavalkya".

Yajnavati is from the Sanskrit Yajñavatī.

Sacrifice-performer / Yajnavalkya — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

यज्ञवती
Transliteration
Yajñavatī
Pronunciation
/ ˈjɑːdʒ.nə.və.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yajnavati stands.

Yajnavati 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.

Yajnavatis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Yajnavalkya Shatapatha Brahmana / Yajnavalkya Smriti / Brihadaranyaka
Sanskrit possessing-Yajna + yajña sacrifice + -vatī possessing + Yājñavalkya Vedic seer author of Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa + Yājñavalkya Smṛti + Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad dialogues Maitreyi + Gargi + Janaka + Śukla Yajurveda
Vedic Yajnavalkya

Names connected to Yajnavati.

The number behind Yajnavati.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yajnavati reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.