Entry № 11654 · Sanskrit origin

Yakshi Yakshi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YAHK-shee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Female nature-spirit (Didarganj Yakshi)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "female nature-spirit (didarganj yakshi)".

Yakshi is from the Sanskrit Yakṣī.

Female nature-spirit (Didarganj Yakshi) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

यक्षी
Transliteration
Yakṣī
Pronunciation
/ ˈjɑːk.ʃi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yakshi stands.

Yakshi 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.

Yakshis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Didarganj Yakshi Mauryan 3rd c. BCE / Bharhut Sanchi Amaravati
Sanskrit female-Yaksha nature-spirit tree-goddess + attendants of Kubera + Didarganj Yakshi Mauryan ~3rd c. BCE Patna Museum + Vessantara Jātaka + Bharhut + Sanchi + Amaravati stupa-carvings + Jain Yakshini 24 Tirthankaras
Indic nature spirit

Names connected to Yakshi.

The number behind Yakshi.

1

The Leader

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