Entry № 2009 · Sanskrit origin

Chitrakala Chitrakala — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHEE-trah-KAH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Art of painting"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "art of painting".

Chitrakala is from the Sanskrit Citrakalā.

Art of painting — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

चित्रकला
Transliteration
Citrakalā
Pronunciation
/ ˌtʃiː.trɑːˈkɑː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Chitrakala stands.

Chitrakala 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.

Chitrakalas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Vishnudharmottara Chitra-Sutra / Ajanta Bagh paintings
Sanskrit art of painting + citra picture + kalā art + ṣaṣṭ-kalā 64-arts tradition + Kāmasūtra + Vishnudharmottara Purana Chitra-Sutra ~6th c. + Ajanta + Bagh cave-paintings
Indian art

Names connected to Chitrakala.

The number behind Chitrakala.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Chitrakala reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.