Entry № 571 · Sanskrit origin

Amrita Amrita — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ahm-REE-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Nectar of immortality (iconic Amrita Pritam Jnanpith Award)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "nectar of immortality (iconic amrita pritam jnanpith award)".

Amrita is from the Sanskrit amṛta (अमृत — immortal, nectar of immortality). Princess Amrita — Hindu heritage naming.

Nectar of immortality (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

अमृता
Transliteration
Amṛtā
Pronunciation
/ ɑːmˈriː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Amrita stands.

Amrita 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.

Amritas before her.

Real people
Amrita Pritam
Iconic Punjabi poet + Jnanpith Award 1981 + Padma Vibhushan 2004.
1919 – 2005
Amrita Sher-Gil
Iconic Hungarian-Indian modern painter.
1913 – 1941
In fiction
Amrita (Samudra Manthan)
Hindu nectar of immortality.

Names connected to Amrita.

The number behind Amrita.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Amrita reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.