Entry № 56 · Sanskrit origin

Abhilasha Abhilasha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-bhee-LAH-shah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Desire / aspiration"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "desire / aspiration".

Abhilasha is from the Sanskrit Abhilāṣā.

Desire / aspiration — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

अभिलाषा
Transliteration
Abhilāṣā
Pronunciation
/ ə.biːˈlɑː.ʃə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Abhilasha stands.

Abhilasha 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.

Abhilashas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Krishna-Radha bhakti / Gita Govinda
Sanskrit desire aspiration longing + abhi-laṣ to yearn + Krishna-Radha bhakti + Jayadevas Gita Govinda ~12th c. + Vidyapatis Maithili Vaishnava poetry
Hindu bhakti

Names connected to Abhilasha.

The number behind Abhilasha.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Abhilasha reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.