Entry № 4423 · Sanskrit origin

Iccha Iccha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EE-chah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Desire / divine will"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "desire / divine will".

Iccha is from the Sanskrit Icchā.

Desire / divine will — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

इच्छा
Transliteration
Icchā
Pronunciation
/ ˈiː.tʃə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Iccha stands.

Iccha 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.

Icchas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Iccha divine will Shakti / Iccha-Shakti Kriya-Shakti Jnana-Shakti 3 Kashmir Shaivism Abhinavagupta 950-1016 / Trika / Kama-Sutra Vatsyayana 4th c. Purushartha Artha Dharma Moksha / Bhagavad Gita 7:11 balam balavatam / Ishta-Devata / Ishti-Karma / Icchamayi / Sri-Vidya
Sanskrit desire divine-will + iṣ to desire + Icchā divine-will Icchā-Śakti + Kriyā-Śakti + Jñāna-Śakti Kashmir Shaivism Abhinavagupta 950-1016 + Icchā-Śakti Trika + Kāma-Sūtra Vātsyāyana 4th c. Puruṣārtha Artha + Dharma + Mokṣa + Bhagavad Gita 7:11 balaṃ balavatāṃ cāhaṃ kāma-rāga-vivarjitam dharmāviruddho bhūteṣu kāmo smi bharatarṣabha + Iṣṭa-Devatā + Iṣṭi-Karma + Icchāmayī + Śrī-Vidyā
Iccha Shakti

Names connected to Iccha.

The number behind Iccha.

6

The Nurturer

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