Entry № 980 · Sanskrit origin

Ashvamedha Ashvamedha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AHSH-vah-MAY-dhah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Horse-sacrifice / royal-Yajna"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "horse-sacrifice / royal-yajna".

Ashvamedha is from the Sanskrit Aśvamedhā.

Horse-sacrifice / royal-Yajna — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Ashvamedha
Transliteration
Aśvamedhā
Pronunciation
/ ˌɑːʃ.vɑːˈmeː.dhə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ashvamedha stands.

Ashvamedha 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.

Ashvamedhas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Ashvamedha.

The number behind Ashvamedha.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ashvamedha reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.