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Parvati name meaning

“of the mountains”

Also spelled Parvathy

Letters
7
Syllables
3
First letter
P
Origin
Sanskrit
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♀ Girl

Indian Names: PMeaning natureSanskrit origin

Parvati is a female name from Sanskrit meaning 'of the mountains'.

What does Parvati mean?

Of the mountains

In Malay: daripada gunung

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Sources (1)

About the name Parvati

Parvati comes from Sanskrit parvata, 'mountain'. It is the name of a Hindu goddess, daughter of the mountain god Himavat and wife of Shiva. In Malaysia it is also spelled Parvathy. According to JPN, the spelling Parvathy peaked in the 1950s with 346 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginSanskrit
SyllablesPar-va-ti
First letterIndian Names starting with P
Devanagari scriptपार्वती
Telugu scriptపార్వతి

Parvati in official JPN data

1940s
Girl: 135 · 6.5% · Parvathy
1950s
Girl: 346 · 6.1% · Parvathy
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
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with the spelling Parvathy 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. Behind the Name: Parvati · behindthename.com · meaning

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