Entry № 6944 · Bengali origin

Mohua Mohua — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MOH-hoo-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Bengali
Meaning
"Mahua flower-tree (Bengali)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Bengali)

A name that means "mahua flower-tree (bengali)".

Mohua (মহুয়া) is the Bengali name for the Mahua tree (Madhuca longifolia) — a flowering tree sacred in Hindu and tribal traditions, central to Santal and Adivasi culture. Featured in Tagore's poetry and the works of Bengali literature.

Used widely in Bengal.

Mahua tree. The Bengali sacred flowering tree.

The name in its native script.

মহুয়া
Transliteration
Mohuā
Pronunciation
/ ˈmoʊ.huː.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mohua stands.

Mohua 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.

Mohuas before her.

Real people
Mahua Moitra
Indian politician.
born 1974
In fiction
Mohua
Featured in Bengali poetry.

Names connected to Mohua.

The number behind Mohua.

4

The Builder

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