Pournami
Pournami means Full moon, night of the full moon.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | girl |
| Origin | Malayalam |
| Language | Malayalam |
| Starts with | P |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Full moon, night of the full moon”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Layla — Night, dark beauty
- Nisha — Meanings families give: Night; Night, goddess of night; Night; the beautiful quiet of night; Night, moonlit night; Night, dream, darkness
- Nishant — Meanings families give: End of night, dawn, the peaceful break of day; Dawn, end of night; Dawn, end of night, peaceful
- Shiuli — Night jasmine flower; fragrant autumn bloom
- Sharvari — Night, twilight
- Rakesh — Meanings families give: Lord of the full moon night, master of moonlight; Lord of full moon night; Lord of the full moon night
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Where this comes from
Pournami 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.