Entry № 1342 · Japanese origin

Benzaiten Benzaiten — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ben-zye-TEN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Japanese
Meaning
"Goddess of music and eloquence"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Antiquity

A name that means "goddess of music and eloquence".

Benzaiten is the Japanese goddess of music, the arts, water and eloquence — beauty flowing like a river.

Graceful and creative, she is a patron of everything that flows.

Goddess of music and eloquence — a name from Japanese myth.

The name in its native script.

Benzaiten
Transliteration
Benzaiten
Pronunciation
/ ben.zaiˈten /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Benzaiten stands.

Benzaiten does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Benzaitens before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Benzaiten.

The number behind Benzaiten.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Benzaiten reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.