Entry № 247 · Sanskrit origin

Ahilya Ahilya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-HEEL-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Ahalya wife of Gautama (Ramayana)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "ahalya wife of gautama (ramayana)".

Ahilya is from the Sanskrit Ahalyā.

Ahalya wife of Gautama (Ramayana) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

अहिल्या
Transliteration
Ahalyā
Pronunciation
/ əˈhiːl.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ahilya stands.

Ahilya 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.

Ahilyas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ahalya-uddhāra / Ahilyabai Holkar
Sanskrit wife of Sage Gautama in Ramayana + Ahalyā-uddhāra liberation by Rama + Ahilyabai Holkar 1725-1795 Queen of Malwa + rebuilt Kashi Vishwanath Temple + Somnath
Ramayana + Maratha

Names connected to Ahilya.

The number behind Ahilya.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ahilya reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.