National Bodhi Day 2023: Date, History, Facts, Activities

National Bodhi Day is observed annually on April 9 to celebrate this remarkable name. Many parents find searching for suitable monikers for their offspring great fun and sometimes this involves weeks of thought-provoking deliberation. Ultimately, who gets to choose? Dad or Mom? A name to consider is Bodhi, a unisex name of Sanskrit origin, which means ‘enlightenment,’ ‘awakening,’ or ‘understanding of true nature.’ In Buddhism, it’s a spiritual name that refers to a state of ‘nirvana’ and freedom from hate, greed, and ego. Sounds perfect, right?

The background of National Bodhi Day

Bodhi is a unisex name of Sanskrit origin, which means ‘enlightenment,’ ‘awakening,’ or ‘understanding of true nature.’ In Buddhism, it’s a spiritual name that refers to a state of nirvana and freedom from hate, greed, and ego. The concept also encompasses a person’s liberation from the perpetual cycle of reincarnation and the termination of suffering through enlightenment and awakening. Bodhi is described as the absence of ego and self-centeredness. And when the state of Bodhi is achieved, the karmic journey ends with nirvana, where one rids oneself of what Buddhists describe as the three psychological evils namely, greed, or desire, anger, and delusion.

Additionally, the Bodhi tree is the specific sacred fig tree under which the founder of Buddhism — Siddhartha Gautama Buddha — is said to have achieved enlightenment after about 50 days of meditation. Other spelling variations of the name include Bodie, Bode, and Body.

Prior to 2010, Bodhi was so unpopular that it didn’t even make the list of the top 1,000 most popular names in the U.S. The name’s ranking in 2010 was 907 in the list of most popular male names but once again dropped to 920 in the following year. However, as the years progressed, Bodhi increased in popularity as a male name and finally reached its highest popularity in 2021, ranking at 284. Within that year, there were 1,206 births with the name Bodhi, accounting for 0.065% of total male births. Bodhi is not within the top 1,000 female names, meaning no records are available to gauge its level of popularity.

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NATIONAL BODHI DAY ACTIVITIES

Find someone named Bodhi

Know anyone called Bodhi? Today is a good day to celebrate them and tell them what a cool name they’ve got.

Find anagrams

Have some fun with anagrams. Make it a game to find out how many anagrams you can make from the name Bodhi.

Use the hashtag

More people need to learn about National Bodhi Day. Spark a conversation on social media and use the hashtag #nationalbodhiday

5 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT SANSKRIT

Sanskrit has been identified as one of man’s oldest languages and is thought to be at least 5,000 years old.

Researchers have found that there are words from the English, Greek, Latin, Gothic, and Persian languages that can be traced to Sanskrit.

India’s State of Uttarakhand has declared Sanskrit its official language.

The online paper ‘Sudharma’ is the only daily paper in the world that’s entirely written in Sanskrit.

This language has the largest vocabulary of all languages and you cannot run out of words to describe anything.

NATIONAL BODHI DAY DATES

Year	Date	Day
2023	April 9	Sunday
2024	April 9	Tuesday
2025	April 9	Wednesday
2026	April 9	Thursday
2027	April 9	Friday