Entry № 2007 · Sanskrit origin

Chitragandha Chitragandha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHEE-trah-GAHN-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Picture-fragrance / Chitrangada"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "picture-fragrance / chitrangada".

Chitragandha is from the Sanskrit Citragandhā.

Picture-fragrance / Chitrangada — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

चित्रगन्धा
Transliteration
Citragandhā
Pronunciation
/ ˌtʃiː.trɑːˈɡɑːn.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Chitragandha stands.

Chitragandha 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.

Chitragandhas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Chitrangada Manipur wife of Arjuna Mahabharata Adi Parva 214-217 / Babhruvahana / Tagore 1892
Sanskrit picture-fragrance variant of Chitrangada + Citrāṅgadā Manipur-princess wife-of-Arjuna 12-year Pandava-exile + Mahabharata Adi Parva 214-217 + Babhruvahana + Rabindranath Tagores Citrāṅgadā 1892 Bengali dance-drama Nobel 1913
Mahabharata Chitrangada

Names connected to Chitragandha.

The number behind Chitragandha.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Chitragandha reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.