Ponni
Ponni means River Kaveri, golden one.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | girl |
| Origin | Tamil |
| Language | Tamil |
| Starts with | P |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “River Kaveri, golden one”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Kaveri — Meanings families give: Sacred river; Sacred river, daughter of Kavera; The sacred Kaveri river 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
- Avani — stream, river, RV., the earth
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Where this comes from
Ponni 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.