Indian Names · Girl
Saraswathy name meaning
“possessing water”
- Letters
- 10
- Syllables
- 4●●●●
- First letter
- S
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- Category
- Indian Names
- Gender
- ♀ Girl
- Malayalam scriptസരസ്വതി
Peak 1960s: 16.7%
of the girl top-10 totalJPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
of the girl top-10 total
| Decade | girl |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 9.4% |
| 1950s | 15.7% |
| 1960s | 16.7% |
| 1970s | 16.3% |
| 1980s | 12.5% |
| 1990s | – |
| 2000s | – |
| 2010s | – |
Saraswathy is a girl's name from Sanskrit meaning 'possessing water'.
What does Saraswathy mean?
About the name Saraswathy
Saraswathy is the name of a Hindu river goddess also associated with learning and the arts. The name is Sanskrit: saras means water or lake, and vatī means having. The spellings Saraswathi and Sarasvati are also used. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1970s with 1,230 baby girls.
| Gender | ♀ Girl |
|---|---|
| Origin | Sanskrit |
| Syllables | Sa-ras-wa-thy |
| First letter | Indian Names starting with S |
| Malayalam script | സരസ്വതി |
|---|
Saraswathy in official JPN data
- 1940s
- Girl: 194 · 9.4%
- 1950s
- Girl: 888 · 15.7%
- 1960s
- Girl: 1,189 · 16.7%
- 1970s
- Girl: 1,230 · 16.3%
- 1980s
- Girl: 886 · 12.5%
- 1990s
- not in the top 10
- 2000s
- not in the top 10
- 2010s
- not in the top 10
Sources
- Behind the Name: Saraswati · behindthename.com · meaning
- Wiktionary: सरस्वती · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
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