Entry № 7019 · Sanskrit origin

Mudita Mudita — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ moo-DEE-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Sympathetic joy (Buddhist sublime state)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "sympathetic joy (buddhist sublime state)".

Mudita (मुदिता) is the Sanskrit-Pali word for "sympathetic joy" — the third of the four Brahmavihārās of Buddhism (with karuna, maitri, and upekkha).

Sympathetic joy. The Buddhist sublime state.

The name in its native script.

मुदिता
Transliteration
Muditā
Pronunciation
/ muːˈdiː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mudita stands.

Mudita 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.

Muditas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Mudita
Buddhist sublime state.
Pali Canon

Names connected to Mudita.

The number behind Mudita.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mudita reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.