Entry № 2010 · Sanskrit origin

Chitralekha Chitralekha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHEE-trah-LEH-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Picture-line (Aniruddha friend)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "picture-line (aniruddha friend)".

Chitralekha is from the Sanskrit Citralekhā.

Picture-line (Aniruddha friend) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

चित्रलेखा
Transliteration
Citralekhā
Pronunciation
/ ˌtʃiː.trɑːˈlɛ.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Chitralekha stands.

Chitralekha 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.

Chitralekhas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Usha-Aniruddha Bhagavata Purana / Amritlal Nagar 1934
Sanskrit picture-line + Chitralekhā friend of Usha daughter of King Bana + Bhagavata Purana + Vishnu Purana + Aniruddha-Usha love-story + Amritlal Nagar Chitralekha Hindi novel 1934
Hindu mythology

Names connected to Chitralekha.

The number behind Chitralekha.

6

The Nurturer

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