Entry № 1232 · Sanskrit origin

Bala Bala — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BAH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Young girl / Devi"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "young girl / devi".

Bala is from the Sanskrit Bālā.

Young girl / Devi — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

बाला
Transliteration
Bālā
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɑː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bala stands.

Bala 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.

Balas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Bala-Tripurasundari Sri Vidya / Buddhist five Bala strengths
Sanskrit young-girl child maiden + Bālā-Tripurasundarī youthful-form Tripurasundari + Sri Vidya Tantric + Bālā Mantra Sri Vidya + Buddhist five Bala Śraddhā + Vīrya + Smṛti + Samādhi + Prajñā
Hindu Buddhist

Names connected to Bala.

The number behind Bala.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bala reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.