Entry № 7369 · Sanskrit origin

Neha Neha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NEH-hah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Love / rain"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "love / rain".

Neha is from the Sanskrit Nehā.

Love / rain — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

नेहा
Transliteration
Nehā
Pronunciation
/ ˈnɛ.hə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Neha stands.

Neha 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.

Nehas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Krishna-Radha bhakti / Neha Kakkar
Sanskrit love + Krishna-Radha bhakti + Jayadevas Gita Govinda ~12th c. + Neha Kakkar Bollywood playback singer + pan-Hindu heritage
Hindu bhakti

Names connected to Neha.

The number behind Neha.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Neha reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.