Entry № 1902 · Sanskrit origin

Chapala Chapala — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ chah-PAH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Restless / Lakshmi-epithet"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "restless / lakshmi-epithet".

Chapala is from the Sanskrit Cāpalā.

Restless / Lakshmi-epithet — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

चापला
Transliteration
Cāpalā
Pronunciation
/ tʃɑːˈpɑː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Chapala stands.

Chapala 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.

Chapalas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Chapala Lakshmi fickle fortune / Cāpala unsteadiness Pranayama / Cāpalā-Lakshmi / Bhartrhari 5th c. Niti-Shringara-Vairagya-Shataka 3 100-verse / Cāpalā-Vrata / Bhagavad Gita 6:34 chanchalam hi manah krishna / 6:35 abhyasena tu kaunteya vairagyena ca grhyate
Sanskrit restless swift moving + cap to move + Cāpalā Lakshmi-epithet fickle-fortune + Cāpala Prāṇāyāma-hindrances + Cāpalā-Lakṣmī + Bhartṛhari 5th c. Nīti-Śataka + Śṛṅgāra-Śataka + Vairāgya-Śataka three-100-verse cāpalā tvayā gṛha-nāthaṃ pramārkeṇa cāla-cita-cala-lakṣmīm + Cāpalā-Vrata + Bhagavad Gita 6:34 cañcalaṃ hi manaḥ kṛṣṇa pramāthi balavad dṛḍham + 6:35 abhyāsena tu kaunteya vairāgyeṇa ca gṛhyate
Chapala Bhartrhari

Names connected to Chapala.

The number behind Chapala.

6

The Nurturer

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