Entry № 2015 · Sanskrit origin

Chitrarekha Chitrarekha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHEE-trah-REH-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Picture-line / Usha friend"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "picture-line / usha friend".

Chitrarekha is from the Sanskrit Citrarekhā.

Picture-line / Usha friend — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

चित्ररेखा
Transliteration
Citrarekhā
Pronunciation
/ ˈtʃiː.trɑːˈrɛ.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Chitrarekha stands.

Chitrarekha 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.

Chitrarekhas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Chitrarekha Usha friend Anirudha Bhagavata Canto 10 / Ushaharana
Sanskrit picture-line painting-outline + citra picture + rekhā line + Ushas-friend celestial-artist drew paintings of prince Anirudha grandson of Krishna to help lovesick Usha + Bhagavata Purana Canto 10 + Uṣāharaṇa + Krishna-Anirudha
Bhagavata Purana

Names connected to Chitrarekha.

The number behind Chitrarekha.

3

The Communicator

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