Given name · also Hindi
Parvati
Parvati is used as a given name. One Hindi interpretation is “daughter of the mountain; in Hinduism, a name for the wife of Shiva.”
Original Sanskritपार्वती
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “daughter of the mountain; in Hinduism, a name for the wife of Shiva.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Sanskrit.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2008. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Parvati through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 28
- 0 boys · 28 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,669 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,669 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 267 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Parvati’s family of names
In English usage, Parvati has a diminutive in Paro. Parvati has a related form in Parvatea. Parvati has a related form in Parvatee.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Parodiminutive · English
- Pauraveavariant
- Pauraveevariant
- Pauravyvariant
- Pauravievariant
- Parvateavariant
- Pauravivariant
- Parvateevariant
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Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Parvati
- Parvati NairIndian actress and modelborn 1992
- Parvati MeltonAmerican actressborn 1983
- Parvati KhanIndian singer
- Parvati ShallowAmerican television personalityborn 1982
- Parvati Prasad BaruvaIndian poet, lyricist and dramatist who wrote in Assamese language1904–1964
- Parvatibai AthavaleIndian social reformer1870–1955
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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