Entry № 766 · Sanskrit origin

Anupa Anupa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-NOO-pah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Watery region"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "watery region".

Anupa is from the Sanskrit Anūpā.

Watery region — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

अनूपा
Transliteration
Anūpā
Pronunciation
/ əˈnuː.pə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anupa stands.

Anupa 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.

Anupas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Charaka Samhita Anūpa geography
Sanskrit watery region + Anūpa Ayurvedic Charaka Samhita geographic classification alongside Jāṅgala dry + Sādhāraṇa mixed + Anupa Roy Hindustani classical vocalist
Ayurveda + music

Names connected to Anupa.

The number behind Anupa.

8

The Visionary

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