Entry № 1865 · Sanskrit origin

Chaitra Chaitra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHAI-trah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"First month of Hindu calendar / spring"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "first month of hindu calendar / spring".

Chaitra is from the Sanskrit चैत्र (Chaitra — first month of Hindu lunar calendar, spring season). Chaitra is one of the Sanskrit feminine names — central to traditional Hindu Vedic heritage. Sanskrit feminine name reflecting Hindu calendrical heritage.

First month of Hindu calendar (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

चैत्र
Transliteration
Chaitra
Pronunciation
/ ˈtʃaɪ.trə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Chaitra stands.

Chaitra 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.

Chaitras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Chaitra
First month of Hindu calendar + Chaitra Navratri + Ugadi + Gudi Padwa + Ram Navami.
Hindu calendar

Names connected to Chaitra.

The number behind Chaitra.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Chaitra reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.