Kalaivani

Meaning

a Tamil name for the goddess Saraswati: kalai (Tamil, the arts) joined to Vani (Sanskrit, goddess of speech); a devotional classic of the grandmother generation, often shortened to Vani

Popularity, 1890–2024

Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Kalaivani has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.

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