Rajani is from the Hindi / Nepalese / Sanskrit रजनी (Rajanī — night). A modern American baby name in the broader Hindi-Nepalese heritage aesthetic. Rajani is one of the foundational Hindi + Nepalese feminine names — central to traditional Hindu-Indian heritage. The foundational Sanskrit rajanī (night) is central to foundational Sanskrit classical literature + foundational Hindu cosmological + Vedic astronomical heritage. Notable bearer: Rajani Pandit — foundational Indian female private detective + foundational First Lady Detective of India (founded foundational Rajani Pandit Detective Services 1991, foundational figure in foundational Indian-feminist crime + investigation heritage); Rajani Thiranagama (1954-1989) — foundational Sri Lankan Tamil human rights activist + Jaffna University professor + foundational author of foundational The Broken Palmyra (1990, posthumous, chronicle of Sri Lankan Civil War + IPKF atrocities) + foundational martyr for foundational pan-Tamil human rights heritage.
Featured throughout Hindi heritage.
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Rajani reduces to six.