Yallamma
Yallamma means Mother goddess, folk deity of Karnataka.
| Gender | girl |
| Origin | Kannada |
| Language | Kannada |
| Starts with | Y |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Mother goddess, folk deity of Karnataka”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Kaveri — The sacred Kaveri river of Karnataka
- Oliver — Possibly from Old Norse Óleifr ('ancestral' + 'relic'); popularly linked by folk etymology to the Latin word for olive tree
- Toral — Folk heroine, brave woman
- Ramdevji — Folk saint, savior of the oppressed
- Gogaji — Folk deity, protector against snakebite
- Pabuji — Folk hero, protector of camels and people
More girls' names of Kannada origin
- Mythri — Friendship, benevolence
- Soundarya — Beauty, charm, elegance
- Yashaswini — Famous, glorious, successful woman
- Mamatha — Love, affection, maternal feeling
- Malavika — A woman from Malwa, classical heroine
- Roopashree — Endowed with beauty, graceful one
Where this comes from
Yallamma 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.