Entry № 1230 · Sanskrit origin

Bakula Bakula — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BAH-koo-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Sacred flower Mimusops"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "sacred flower mimusops".

Bakula is from the Sanskrit Bakulā.

Sacred flower Mimusops — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

बकुला
Transliteration
Bakulā
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɑː.kuː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bakula stands.

Bakula 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.

Bakulas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kalidasa Bakula / Bakula Rinpoche Ladakh / Kushok Bakula Airport Leh
Sanskrit Mimusops elengi sacred-Bakula-tree + Sanskrit poetic + Kalidasa + Bakula-Puṣpa temple-offering + Ayurveda dental-health + Bakula Rinpoche 1917-2003 Ladakhi Buddhist monk + Kushok Bakula Rimpochee Airport Leh
Hindu Buddhist

Names connected to Bakula.

The number behind Bakula.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bakula reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.