Shawani as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Shawani

What is the meaning of the name Shawani ?

The baby name Shawani is a Female name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced shuh-WAH-nee (IPA: /ʃəˈwɑːni/).

Shawani is Swahili in Origin.

Shawani is a cross-cultural given name with two main etymologies. In South Asia it aligns with Sanskrit Shravani (from Shravana, a lunar month and nakshatra), yielding the sense “belonging to Shravana,” “monsoon-born,” or by association “devotee of Shiva,” since that month features Shiva observances. In Arabic it corresponds to nisbas formed from Shawwal, the 10th Islamic month; by extension it can mean “of Shawwal” or “uplifted/raised,” from the root sh-w-l.

Usage is chiefly feminine in India and Nepal - especially among Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, and Bengali speakers, where festival and calendar names gained favor in the 20th century - while in Arabic-speaking regions Shawani/Al-Shawani more often appears as a family name and only occasionally as a given name. Variant spellings include Shravani, Sravani, Srabani (Bengali), Shrawani, Saavni, Savani, and Shavani; Shawani functions as an anglicized or hybrid form. Not related to Shawna/Shawnee.

⚙ Shawani is a rare find. There are only 39 recorded uses of it in our data, from 5 countries.