Entry № 7401 · Sanskrit origin

Netra Netra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NEH-trah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Eye"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "eye".

Netra is from the Sanskrit Netrā.

Eye — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

नेत्रा

Transliteration: Netrā
Pronunciation: / ˈnɛ.trə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Netra stands.

Netra 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.

Namesakes

Netras before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Trinetra Shiva / Sahasra-Netra Indra / Bhagavad Gita 11:10

Sanskrit eye + nī to lead + Trinetra three-eyed Shiva + tri-Netra Durga + Sahasra-Netra thousand-eyed Indra + Bhagavad Gita 11:10 Vishvarupa aneka-netra many-eyed cosmic-form

Hindu iconography

Names connected to Netra.

Numerology

The number behind Netra.

The Builder

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