Entry № 11661 · Sanskrit origin

Yami Yami — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YAH-mee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Twin (Yama's sister, Yamuna river)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "twin (yama's sister, yamuna river)".

Yami (यमी) is the feminine of Yama — "twin." The twin sister of Yama, god of death — in Rig Veda 10.10, she tries to persuade her brother into incest to perpetuate humanity (he refuses).

Featured in Rig Veda 10.10.

Twin (Yama's sister, Yamuna river) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

यमी
Transliteration
Yamī
Pronunciation
/ ˈjɑː.mi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yami stands.

Yami 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.

Yamis before her.

Real people
Yami Gautam
Indian actress.
born 1988
In fiction
Yami
Rig Veda 10.10.

Names connected to Yami.

The number behind Yami.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yami reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.