Entry № 5642 · Sanskrit origin

Kusha Kusha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KOO-shah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Sacred grass (Ramayana)"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "sacred grass (ramayana)".

Kusha is from the Sanskrit Kuśā.

Sacred grass (Ramayana) — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

कुशा

Transliteration: Kuśā
Pronunciation: / ˈkuː.ʃə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Kusha stands.

Kusha 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.

Namesakes

Kushas before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Lava-Kusha / Kushinagar

Sanskrit sacred grass + Lava-Kusha twin sons of Rama + Sita in Valmikis Ramayana ~5th-4th c. BCE + Kusha founded Kushinagar one of seven holiest Buddhist sites

Ramayana

Names connected to Kusha.

Numerology

The number behind Kusha.

The Nurturer

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