Entry № 5723 · Sanskrit origin

Lalitha Lalitha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ lah-LEE-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Graceful, charming"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "graceful, charming".

Lalitha (ललिता) is the Sanskrit word for "graceful" or "charming." Lalita Tripurasundari is one of the principal forms of the goddess Adi Parashakti, especially worshipped in South India.

Lalitha is widely used in India.

Graceful. The Hindu Tripurasundari.

The name in its native script.

ललिता
Transliteration
Lalitā
Pronunciation
/ ləˈliː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lalitha stands.

Lalitha 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.

Lalithas before her.

Real people
M. S. Subbulakshmi
Carnatic singer who sang the Lalitha Sahasranama.
1916 – 2004
In fiction
Lalitha
Hindu goddess.
Hindu scripture

Names connected to Lalitha.

The number behind Lalitha.

9

The Giver

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