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Shalini name meaning

“praiseworthy; mistress of the house”

Letters
7
Syllables
3
First letter
S
Origin
Sanskrit · Hindi
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1990s: 19.2%
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–
1980s7.2%
1990s19.2%
2000s18.6%
2010s7.6%

Indian Names: SSanskrit origin

Shalini is a girl's name from Sanskrit (शालिनी) meaning 'praiseworthy' or 'mistress of the house'.

What does Shalini mean?

Praiseworthy; mistress of the house

In Malay: terpuji; suri rumah

Sources (3)

About the name Shalini

Shalini comes from Sanskrit śālinī (शालिनी), the feminine form of the adjective śālin, 'praiseworthy' or 'having a house'. Apte's dictionary gives the sense 'mistress of the house', and Monier-Williams records Śālinī as a woman's name. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1990s with 1,141 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginSanskrit, Hindi
SyllablesSha-li-ni
First letterIndian Names starting with S
Devanagari scriptशालिनी

Shalini 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
Girl: 505 · 7.2%
1990s
Girl: 1,141 · 19.2%
2000s
Girl: 698 · 18.6%
2010s
Girl: 41 · 7.6%
People registered with Shalini 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: शालिन् (śālin) · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wisdom Library: Śālinī (Monier-Williams, Apte) · wisdomlib.org · meaning
  3. Behind the Name: Shalini · behindthename.com · usage

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