Entry № 7503 · Sanskrit origin

Nirmala Nirmala — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nir-MAH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Pure / Nirmala Sitharaman"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "pure / nirmala sitharaman".

Nirmala is from the Sanskrit Nirmalā.

Pure / Nirmala Sitharaman — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

निर्मला
Transliteration
Nirmalā
Pronunciation
/ nɪrˈmɑː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nirmala stands.

Nirmala 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.

Nirmalas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Nirmala Sitharaman Finance Minister / Amritanandamayi
Sanskrit pure spotless + nir- without + mala impurity + Bhagavad Gita 6:5 + Nirmala Sitharaman 1959- Indian Finance Minister since 2019 + second-woman FM after Indira Gandhi + Nirmala Devi mother of Amritanandamayi
Indian politics

Names connected to Nirmala.

The number behind Nirmala.

5

The Seeker

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