Entry № 2477 · Sanskrit origin

Dharma Dharma — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DAHR-mah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Righteousness / cosmic order"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "righteousness / cosmic order".

Dharma is from the Sanskrit Dharma.

Righteousness / cosmic order — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

धर्म

Transliteration: Dharma
Pronunciation: / ˈdɑːr.mə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Dharma stands.

Dharma 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.

Namesakes

Dharmas before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Four Purusharthas / Bhagavad Gita 4:7-8 / Buddhist Dhamma

Sanskrit righteousness cosmic-order duty-virtue + dhṛ to hold sustain + Dharma one of four Puruṣārthas + Artha + Kāma + Mokṣa + Dharma-Śāstra Manusmriti + Yajnavalkya-Smriti + Naradasmriti + Bhagavad Gita 4:7-8 yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata + Buddhist Dhamma

Pan-Indic

Names connected to Dharma.

Numerology

The number behind Dharma.

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dharma reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.