Entry № 768 · Sanskrit origin

Anuradha Anuradha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-noo-RAH-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Anuradha Nakshatra / devoted"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "anuradha nakshatra / devoted".

Anuradha is from the Sanskrit Anurādhā.

Anuradha Nakshatra / devoted — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

अनुराधा
Transliteration
Anurādhā
Pronunciation
/ ˌɑː.nuːˈrɑː.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anuradha stands.

Anuradha 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.

Anuradhas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Anuradha 17th Nakshatra Mitra / Anuradhapura Sri Lanka UNESCO 1982 / Anuradha Paudwal Padma Shri 2017
Sanskrit devoted-follower 17th-Nakshatra + anu- after + rādh to succeed + 17th of 27 Nakshatras + Toraṇa archway symbol + Mitra Vedic-friendship-god + Anurādhapura ancient-capital Sri Lanka ~5th c. BCE + UNESCO 1982 + Anuradha Paudwal Padma Shri 2017
Vedic Nakshatra

Names connected to Anuradha.

The number behind Anuradha.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anuradha reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.