Rashmi (also Rashami, Rashmika) (

Sanskrit Sanskrit (; attributively , ; nominally , , ) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in South Asia after its predecessor languages had diffused there from the northwest in the late ...

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Hindu Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...

unisexual name in India. Rashmi means a single 'ray of light', a very popular name in Hindu. More common in females as compared to males.

Notable people named Rashmi

Rashami Desai Shivani Desai (born 13 February 1986), professionally known as Rashami Desai, is an Indian television actress. Desai is the recipient of several accolades including two Indian Television Academy Awards and Gold Awards. She has established hers ...

(born August 4, 1986), Indian actress, model and dancer * Rashmi, Indian Actress *

Rashmi Bansal Rashmi Bansal is an Indian non-fiction writer and entrepreneur. As of 2019, she is the author of nine books on entrepreneurship. Her first book, '' Stay Hungry Stay Foolish'', traced the progress of 25 MBA entrepreneurs and sold over 500,000 cop ...

, Indian writer, entrepreneur, and a youth expert * Rashmi C. Desai, Indian-American physicist *

Rashmi Doraiswamy Dr Rashmi Doraiswamy is a National Film Award winning film critic. She received her M. Phil from the Centre for Russian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi, India) for her dissertation, 'A Critique of Mikhail Bakhtin’s Theory of Literat ...

, Indian film critic *

Rashmi Gautam Rashmi Gautam is an Indian actress and television presenter who appears in Telugu-language films and TV. She hosts the Telugu television comedy show ''Extra Jabardasth'' and is a conceptual team leader in reality dance show ''Dhee''. Early ...

, Indian television presenter and film actress *

Rashmi Kumari Rashmi Kumari is an International Carrom champion from Bihar, India, playing since 1992. She is employed on a scholarship basis at Union Bank of India, UBI in Patna. She also played for BSB in many tournaments. Achievements *World champion Rashmi ...

, Indian carrom champion *

Rashmi Nigam Rashmi Nigam is an Indian model and actress. She made her acting debut with the short '' Ja Re Ja'' in 2001. After that in 2004, she made her Bollywood debut in the film ''Popcorn Khao! Mast Ho Jao''. In 2012 she acted in Madhur Bhandarkar’s d ...

, Indian model and actress *

Rashmi Parida Rashmi Ranjan Parida (born 7 July 1977) is an Indian cricketer, who plays for Vidarbha in Indian Domestic Cricket.He has played for Odisha, Rajasthan and Assam. He is primarily a right-handed batsman. He made his debut for Odisha in 1994 and pla ...

(born July 7, 1977), Indian cricketer * Rashmi R. Rao, Indian radio personality and actor *

Rashmi Shetty Dr. Rashmi Shetty is an India, Indian board certified dermatologist, teacher, author, and entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in aesthetic and clinical dermatology. She is known for her transformative yet subtle results with facial e ...

, Indian celebrity dermatologist * Rashmi Singh, an Indian lyricist *

Rashmi Sinha Rashmi Sinha is an Indian businesswoman and CEO of San Francisco-based technology company SlideShare. In 2012, '' Fortune'' named her No. 8 on its Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs list. In 2008, Rashmi was named one of the World's Top 10 Wom ...

, Indian businesswoman *

, nutritional and cancer epidemiologist *

Rashmi Tiwari Dr. Rashmi Tiwari is the Founder and Director of the Aahan Tribal Foundation of India, working to dismantle the machinery of trafficking. She is Fellow of Vital Voices (USA), Fellow of SIMP and a Certified Leadership Coach from NeuroLeadership ...

, Indian human-rights activist *

Rashmi Uday Singh Rashmi Uday Singh is an Indian food expert TV host and author. Career As a food expert she focuses on vegetarianism and health. She has authored more than 40 books. She has won Gourmand World Cookbook award and ''Chevalier dans l'Ordre des A ...

(29 January 1955), Indian food expert *

Rashmi Verma Rashmi Varma is an Indian politician from Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP. She has represented Narkatiaganj in the Bihar Legislative Assembly since 25 August 2014. She won the 2014 by-elections from Narkatiaganj (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Narkatia ...

, Indian politician *

Rashmika Mandanna Rashmika Mandanna (born 5 April 1996) is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Telugu and Kannada films besides few Hindi and Tamil films. She is a recipient of four SIIMA Awards and a Filmfare Award South. She made her acting debut wi ...

, Indian film actress and model

Others

Rashmirathi Rashmirathi (''Rashmi'': ''Ray of light'' ''Rathi'': ''One who rides a chariot (not the charioteer)'' ''Rashmirathi'': ''Rider of the chariot of light'') is a Hindi epic written in 1952, by the Hindi poet Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'. The epic poem narr ...

, Ramdhari Singh's 1952 Hindi epic book *

Cyclone Rashmi Cyclonic Storm Rashmi ( IMD designation: BOB 05, JTWC designation: 04B) was the seventh tropical cyclone of the 2008 North Indian Ocean cyclone season and second cyclonic storm, as well as the fifth tropical cyclone in the Bay of Bengal that year. ...

, seventh tropical cyclone of the 2008 North Indian Ocean cyclone season {{given name Hindu given names Indian feminine given names