At a Glance
- Meaning
- Twin
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- Gender
- Girl
- Pronunciation
- YAH-mee
Yami is a Sanskrit girl's name meaning “twin”. It appears in our list of 175+ Baby Names That Mean Dark or Night — Mysterious, Moody, and Magnetic.
Meaning & Origin of Yami
Meaning: Twin.
Origin: Sanskrit.
A common claim: Goddess of the night Actually: Yami is the Hindu river goddess whose name means twin, while in Japanese yami is simply a vocabulary word for darkness.
Source: Wiktionary.
How to Pronounce Yami
YAH-meeIPA /ˈjɐmiː/
Popularity of Yami
Yami doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.
Lists That Include Yami
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