Sohini

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “A classical raga; beautiful one”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Sahana — Meanings families give: Patience, raga name; Patient, enduring, tolerant; Patience, tolerance; a classical raga; Patience, endurance, musical raga
• Shakuntala — Meanings families give: Bird, born of birds, classical heroine; Bird, Shakuntala of Kalidasa
• Mallar — A classical raga for rain; bringer of rain
• Shakunthala — Bird, nurtured by birds, classical
• Asavari — A classical raaga, melodious morning tune
• Malhar — Rain raga, bringing monsoon

More girls' names of Bengali origin

• Shiuli — Night jasmine flower; fragrant autumn bloom
• Oishee — Divine, of God; belonging to the divine
• Doyel — The Oriental Magpie Robin; national bird of Bangladesh
• Brishti — Rain; the blessed monsoon rains
• Mili — To meet, to unite
• Reeya — Singer; one with a melodious voice

Where this comes from

Sohini 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.