Entry № 4449 · Sanskrit origin

Iha Iha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ EE-hah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Earnest wish, purpose"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "earnest wish, purpose".

Iha comes from īhā (wish, striving, purpose), naming the will to reach toward something. It is small, clear and quietly determined.

Earnest wish, purpose — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

ईहा
Transliteration
Īhā
Pronunciation
/ ˈiː.ɦə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Iha stands.

Iha 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.

Ihas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Iha.

The number behind Iha.

9

The Giver

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