Entry № 7526 · Sanskrit origin

Nitya Nitya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NEET-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Eternal"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "eternal".

Nitya is from the Sanskrit Nityā.

Eternal — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

नित्या
Transliteration
Nityā
Pronunciation
/ ˈniːt.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nitya stands.

Nitya 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.

Nityas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Nitya-Anitya-Vastu-Viveka / Bhagavad Gita 2:20
Sanskrit eternal constant everlasting + Nitya-Anitya-Vastu-Viveka discrimination first of Sādhana-Catuṣṭaya + Adi Shankaracharyas Tattvabodha + Bhagavad Gita 2:20 nityaḥ śāśvato yaṃ purāṇo Ātman + Nithya Menen 1988-
Advaita Vedanta

Names connected to Nitya.

The number behind Nitya.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nitya reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.