Entry № 1040 · Sanskrit origin

Atma Atma — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AHT-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Self / Atman-Vedanta"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "self / atman-vedanta".

Atma is from the Sanskrit Ātmā.

Self / Atman-Vedanta — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Atma
Transliteration
Ātmā
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑːt.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Atma stands.

Atma 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.

Atmas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Atma.

The number behind Atma.

8

The Visionary

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