Entry № 6383 · Sanskrit origin

Mangala Mangala — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAHN-gah-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Auspicious / Mars (Navagraha)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "auspicious / mars (navagraha)".

Mangala is from the Sanskrit Maṅgalā.

Auspicious / Mars (Navagraha) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

मङ्गला
Transliteration
Maṅgalā
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɑːn.ɡə.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mangala stands.

Mangala 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.

Mangalas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Mangala Sutra / Mangalyaan Mars 2013
Sanskrit auspicious welfare Mars-planet + Navagraha nine planets + Maṅgala Sūtra sacred-marriage-necklace + Maṅgalām auspicious-invocation + Mangalyaan Indian Mars-orbiter first-attempt-success 2013
Hindu astrology

Names connected to Mangala.

The number behind Mangala.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mangala reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.