Entry № 11739 · Sanskrit origin

Yayati Yayati — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yah-YAH-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Ancient king / Puranic patriarch"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "ancient king / puranic patriarch".

Yayati is from the Sanskrit Yayāti.

Ancient king / Puranic patriarch — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

ययाति
Transliteration
Yayāti
Pronunciation
/ jɑːˈjɑː.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yayati stands.

Yayati 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.

Yayatis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Yayati Nahusha son Chandra-Vamsa Lunar dynasty / Bhagavata 9:18 Mahabharata Adi 71-88 / Devayani Shukracharya Sharmishtha Vrishaparva 2 wives / Yadu Turvasu Druhyu Anu Puru 5 lineages Yadava Krishna from Yadu / cursed premature old age exchanged Puru / Madhavi 4 sons
Sanskrit ancient king Puranic-patriarch + Yayāti Nahuṣa Chandra-Vaṃśa Lunar-dynasty + Bhagavata Purana Canto 9 Chapter 18 + Mahabharata Adi Parva 71-88 + Devayānī Śukrācārya + Śarmiṣṭhā Vṛṣaparvā + Yadu + Turvasu + Druhyu + Anu + Pūru Yadava-Krishna-lineage Yadu + cursed-premature-old-age Shukracharya exchanged-with-Puru + Mādhavī four-sons-one-per-king
Yayati Chandra-Vamsa

Names connected to Yayati.

The number behind Yayati.

9

The Giver

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