Entry № 4065 · Sanskrit origin

Haridra Haridra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hah-REE-drah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Turmeric / sacred yellow"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "turmeric / sacred yellow".

Haridra is from the Sanskrit Haridrā.

Turmeric / sacred yellow — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

हरिद्रा
Transliteration
Haridrā
Pronunciation
/ həˈriː.drə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Haridra stands.

Haridra 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.

Haridras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Haridra turmeric Curcuma longa / Charaka Sushruta Ashtanga Hridayam Rasayana / Kunkuma-Haridra / Haldi-Kumkum
Sanskrit turmeric Curcuma longa + hari yellow-green + Haridrā sacred-spice Vedic Yajña + Hindu-marriage-Haldi + Charaka + Sushruta + Aṣṭāṅga Hṛdayam Rasāyana + Kunkuma-Haridra red-yellow-Devi + Haldi-Kumkum + anti-inflammatory
Ayurveda turmeric

Names connected to Haridra.

The number behind Haridra.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Haridra reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.