Indian Names · Girl

Tharani name meaning

“earth, ground”

Letters: 7
Syllables: 3
First letter: T
Origin: Tamil · Sanskrit
Category: Indian Names
Gender: ♀ Girl

Peak 2000s: 8.8%
of the girl top-10 total

JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Decade	girl
1940s	–
1950s	–
1960s	–
1970s	–
1980s	–
1990s	–
2000s	8.8%
2010s	7.4%

Indian Names: T Meaning nature Tamil origin

Tharani is a girl's name from Sanskrit Dharani meaning 'earth'.

What does Tharani mean?

Earth, ground

In Malay: bumi, tanah

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About the name Tharani

Tharani is a variant spelling of Dharani, from Sanskrit dharaṇī, 'earth, soil, ground', itself from the root dhṛ, 'to hold, bear'. According to JPN, it peaked in the 2000s with 331 baby girls.

Gender	♀ Girl
Origin	Tamil, Sanskrit
Syllables	Tha-ra-ni
First letter	Indian Names starting with T

Tharani 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: 331 · 8.8%
2010s: Girl: 40 · 7.4%

People registered with Tharani 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

Wiktionary: धरणी · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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