What does the name Meenakshi mean?

Meenakshi means "Fish-eyed goddess, Parvati of Madurai". It is a girl's name of Tamil origin.

Meenakshi

Meenakshi means Fish-eyed goddess, Parvati of Madurai.

Gender	girl
Origin	Tamil
Language	Tamil
Starts with	M

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Fish-eyed goddess, Parvati of Madurai”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Minakshi — Fish-eyed goddess, Parvati of Madurai
Meena — Fish, a star, precious stone
Kayalvizhi — Fish-shaped eyes, beautiful eyes
Neiyal — A fish, the silver fish
Sonakshi — Golden-eyed, daughter of Salman
Nilanjana — Blue-eyed; one with blue-tinted eyes

More girls' names of Tamil origin

Oviya — Artist, beautiful
Abirami — Goddess Lakshmi
Nandhini — Joyful girl, daughter of joy
Anandhi — Blissful
Isai — Music
Jothika — Light, radiance

Where this comes from

Meenakshi has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. 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.