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Janani name meaning

“mother”

Letters
6
Syllables
3
First letter
J
Origin
Sanskrit
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 2010s: 16.8%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s8.7%
2010s16.8%

Indian Names: JMeaning lifeSanskrit origin

Janani is a girl's name from Sanskrit meaning 'mother'.

What does Janani mean?

Mother

In Malay: ibu

#Life

Sources (1)

About the name Janani

Janani comes from Sanskrit jananī, meaning 'mother', the feminine of janana 'begetting', from the root jan-. According to JPN, it peaked in the 2000s with 328 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginSanskrit
SyllablesJa-na-ni
First letterIndian Names starting with J
Devanagari scriptजननी

Janani in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
Girl: 328 · 8.7%
2010s
Girl: 91 · 16.8%
People registered with Janani as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Indian table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: जननी · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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