Yayati is from the Sanskrit Yayāti. A modern American baby name in the broader Sanskrit heritage aesthetic. Yayati is a foundational name with deep heritage. Sanskrit Yayāti foundational-central-ancient-Puranic-king son-of Nahuṣa foundational-central-Chandra-Vaṃśa Lunar-dynasty-patriarch + foundational central Yayāti in Bhagavata Purana Canto 9 Chapter 18 + Mahabharata Adi Parva 71-88 Yayāti-narrative + foundational central Yayāti had-two-wives Devayānī daughter-of-Śukrācārya + Śarmiṣṭhā daughter-of-Vṛṣaparvā + foundational central Yayāti-sons Yadu + Turvasu + Druhyu + Anu + Pūru progenitors-of-five-lineages Yadava-Krishna-lineage from-Yadu + foundational central Yayāti-cursed-with-premature-old-age by-Shukracharya exchanged-youth with-son-Puru + foundational central Yayātis-daughter Mādhavī four-sons-one-per-king narrative + foundational pan-Puranic heritage. Foundational Sanskrit feminine name reflecting cultural + historical heritage spanning centuries.
Featured throughout Sanskrit heritage.
Yayati 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yayati reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.