Entry № 6680 · Sanskrit origin

Meera Meera — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MEE-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Devotee, ocean, prosperous"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Sanskrit)

A name that means "devotee, ocean, prosperous".

Meera is a Sanskrit name forever tied to Mirabai, the sixteenth-century poet-saint and passionate devotee of Krishna, whose devotional songs are still sung across India today. The name has come to mean, in spirit, a devotee.

It carries music, faith and a fierce, tender love, and its soft sound has kept it popular for generations.

A devotee — poetry and devotion.

The name in its native script.

मीरा
Transliteration
Mīrā
Pronunciation
/ ˈmiː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Meera stands.

Meera 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.

Meeras before her.

Real people
Mirabai
16th-century Rajput princess and devotional poet.
1498 – 1547
Mira Nair
Indian filmmaker.
born 1957
In fiction
Meera
Common heroine in Indian films.

Names connected to Meera.

The number behind Meera.

6

The Nurturer

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