Dharani
Dharani means Earth, the one who holds.
| Gender | girl |
| Origin | Telugu |
| Language | Telugu |
| Starts with | D |
Classical Sanskrit origin
धरणि (dharaṇi): the earth (personified as the wife of Dhruva).
Source: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), a public-domain scholarly reference — not every popular name today traces to a classical dictionary entry, so this section only appears where a verified match exists.
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Earth, the one who holds”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Giridhar — One who holds the mountain, Krishna
- Chandrashekhar — Lord Shiva, one who holds moon on head
- Yashodhara — One who holds glory; wife of the Buddha
- Jaladhara — Cloud, one who holds water
- Kaladhara — One who holds the crescent moon, Shiva
- Shridhara — One who holds Lakshmi, Vishnu
More girls' names of Telugu origin
Where this comes from
Dharani's etymology is verified against Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899). Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.