Entry № 2008 · Sanskrit origin

Chitragupta Chitragupta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHIT-rah-GOOP-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Karma-recorder / Yamas-scribe"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "karma-recorder / yamas-scribe".

Chitragupta is from the Sanskrit Citraguptā.

Karma-recorder / Yamas-scribe — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Chitragupta
Transliteration
Citraguptā
Pronunciation
/ ˌtʃiːt.rəˈɡʊp.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Chitragupta stands.

Chitragupta 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.

Chitraguptas before her.

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In fiction

Names connected to Chitragupta.

The number behind Chitragupta.

7

The Seeker

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