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Ramayee name meaning

“Rama; mother”

Letters
7
Syllables
3
First letter
R
Origin
Tamil
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1940s: 6.5%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s6.5%
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: RTamil origin

Ramayee is a Tamil girl's name joining Rama with āyi, a Tamil word meaning 'mother'.

What does Ramayee mean?

Rama; mother

In Malay: Rama; ibu

Sources (4)

About the name Ramayee

Ramayee is made of Rama, the Sanskrit name of the deity and hero of the Ramayana, and -ayee, a spelling of āyi (ஆயி), a Tamil word meaning 'mother' that is also a term of respect for women. The same pattern appears in Mariayee (māri-y-āyi). According to JPN, the name appeared in the 1940s with 135 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginTamil
SyllablesRa-ma-yee
First letterIndian Names starting with R

Ramayee in official JPN data

1940s
Girl: 135 · 6.5%
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
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Ramayee 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: राम · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Tamil Lexicon: இராமன் · dsal.uchicago.edu · meaning
  3. Tamil Lexicon: ஆயி · dsal.uchicago.edu · meaning
  4. Tamil Lexicon: மாரியாயி · dsal.uchicago.edu · meaning

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