Entry № 5553 · Sanskrit origin

Kokila Kokila — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KOH-kee-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Cuckoo / sweet-singer"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "cuckoo / sweet-singer".

Kokila is from the Sanskrit Kokilā.

Cuckoo / sweet-singer — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

कोकिला
Transliteration
Kokilā
Pronunciation
/ ˈkoʊ.ki.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kokila stands.

Kokila 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.

Kokilas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kokila Kanthi Bharat Lata Mangeshkar / Kalidasa cuckoo trope
Sanskrit Indian cuckoo Asian koel + sweet-singing herald-of-spring + Kalidasas Sanskrit poetic + Kokila-Vrata for good-husband + Lata Mangeshkar 1929-2022 Kokila Kanthi Bharat most-recorded artist in history
Hindu music

Names connected to Kokila.

The number behind Kokila.

5

The Seeker

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