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Kausalya Kausalya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kow-SAHL-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Mother of Rama"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "mother of rama".

Kausalya is from the Sanskrit कौसल्या (Kausalyā — belonging to Kosala) — Kosala kingdom princess. Kausalya is one of the Sanskrit feminine names — central to traditional Hindu-Indian heritage. BCE-1st-c. Sanskrit feminine name.

Mother of Rama (Sanskrit-Hindu). BCE-1st-c.

The name in its native script.

कौसल्या
Transliteration
Kausalyā
Pronunciation
/ kaʊˈsɑːl.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kausalya stands.

Kausalya 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.

Kausalyas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Queen Kausalya
Principal wife of Dasharatha + mother of Rama in Ramayana.
Valmiki Ramayana

Names connected to Kausalya.

The number behind Kausalya.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kausalya reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.