Deepali
Deepali means Meanings families give: Row of lamps, festival of lights; A row of lamps, Diwali lights.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | girl |
| Origin | Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Marathi |
| Language | Hindi / Marathi |
| Starts with | D |
Traditional associations
In Hindu tradition, names are sometimes chosen by the baby's rashi (moon sign) or nakshatra (birth star). This is cultural tradition, not a rule. Traditional rashi (by first letter, as commonly listed in this corpus) — not a personalized astrological reading, and not the same as the traditional first-syllable (akshara) method some families use.
- Rashi: Dhanu
- Nakshatra: Purva Ashadha
- More names starting with D
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: Row of lamps, festival of lights; A row of lamps, Diwali lights”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Dipankar — One who lights lamps; illuminator
- Deepkunwar — Lamp princess, one who lights the way
- Trideep — Three lights, lamp of the triple worlds
- Utsav — a festival, jubilee
- Rathayatra — Chariot festival, grand Rath Yatra of Puri
- Nuakhai — New food festival of Western Odisha
More girls' names of Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Marathi origin
- Radha — Meanings families give: Beloved of Krishna, success; Devotee of Lord Krishna, prosperity
- Swara — Meanings families give: Musical note, melody, sound; Musical note, one who has good voice; Musical note, divine; Musical note, voice, sound
- Preeti — Meanings families give: Love, joy, affection; Love, affection, delight
- Kirti — good report, fame
- Shilpa — skill in any art or craft or work of art, ingenuity, contrivance
- Parvati — Meanings families give: Daughter of the mountain, Shiva consort; Daughter of mountain, goddess Shakti
Other names under Dhanu rashi
- Subhadra — n. (-) very glorious or splendid or auspicious or fortunate
- Shruti — Meanings families give: Heard, sacred scriptures, Vedas; That which is heard, the Vedas; Hearing, sacred scriptures
- Ayyappan — Meanings families give: Lord Ayyappa; Lord Ayyappa, divine son of Shiva and Vishnu
- Subhashree — Good fortune, beautiful blessing
- Tanushree — Meanings families give: Beautiful body, graceful; One with a beautiful body; graceful woman
- Sowmya — Meanings families give: Gracious, calm, born of moonlight; Gentle, soft, pleasing; Gentle, calm, mild, Goddess Parvati; Gentle, soft, pleasing, calm
Traditional association, recorded because families use it when choosing — see all Dhanu names.
Where this comes from
Deepali has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.