Samadhi

Samadhi: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“meditative absorption, union”
Origin
Sanskrit
Say it
suh-MAH-dhee · 3 syllables
Used for
Girls

From Sanskrit samadhi, a term in Hinduism and Buddhism for profound meditative concentration or spiritual absorption. It is primarily a religious and philosophical term, only rarely used as a given name.

How popular is Samadhi?

202458.0 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Samadhi in 2024194

2024 rank#1,216 girls

Peak year2024

Total US babies since 1880696

Samadhi is rising: use over the last five years is 15.4× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Samadhi

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Aryanoble; honorable · Sanskrit
  • Kalithe black one · Sanskrit
  • Alayadwelling, abode · Sanskrit
  • Opalgem; precious stone · Sanskrit
  • Ariyanoble · Sanskrit
  • Vedaknowledge · Sanskrit
  • Tarastar · Sanskrit
  • Anikagrace · Sanskrit

Samadhi questions

What does the name Samadhi mean?

Samadhi means "meditative absorption, union". It comes from Sanskrit. From Sanskrit samadhi, a term in Hinduism and Buddhism for profound meditative concentration or spiritual absorption. It is primarily a religious and philosophical term, only rarely used as a given name.

Is Samadhi a boy or girl name?

Samadhi is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Samadhi?

194 US babies were named Samadhi in 2024. Its peak year was 2024.

How do you pronounce Samadhi?

Samadhi is usually pronounced suh-MAH-dhee.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.