Kaveri
Kaveri means Meanings families give: Sacred river; Sacred river, daughter of Kavera; The sacred Kaveri river of Karnataka.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | girl |
| Origin | Kannada / Sanskrit |
| Language | Hindi / Kannada / Sanskrit |
| Starts with | K |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: Sacred river; Sacred river, daughter of Kavera; The sacred Kaveri river of Karnataka”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Ponni — River Kaveri, golden one
- Yallamma — Mother goddess, folk deity of Karnataka
- Jhanvi — Meanings families give: River Ganga; River Ganga, flowing and pure
- Mahi — Meanings families give: The earth; river Mahi in Gujarat; Earth, the great; Earth, great, river
- Reva — Meanings families give: River Narmada, swift moving; River Narmada, star; River Narmada, to move; Sacred river, to move, agile
- Jahnavi — River Ganga, daughter of sage Jahnu
More girls' names of Kannada / Sanskrit origin
- Ratna — Meanings families give: Jewel, gem, precious stone; Gem, jewel, precious stone
- Shashikala — Meanings families give: Phase of the moon, crescent; Phase of the moon, moonbeam
- Mandakini — another river in heaven
Where this comes from
Kaveri 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.