Manimekalai

Meaning

jeweled girdle (mani, gem + mekalai, girdle); heroine of the Tamil Buddhist epic Manimekalai, one of the five great epics of Tamil literature

Popularity, 1890–2024

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

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