Entry № 7530 · Sanskrit origin

Nivedita Nivedita — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nee-veh-DEE-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Dedicated (iconic Sister Nivedita — Vivekananda's disciple)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Sanskrit)

A name that means "dedicated (iconic sister nivedita — vivekananda's disciple)".

Nivedita is from the Sanskrit nivedita (निवेदिता — dedicated, offered, surrendered). Princess Nivedita — Hindu heritage naming.

Dedicated (iconic Sister Nivedita — Vivekananda's disciple) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

निवेदिता
Transliteration
Niveditā
Pronunciation
/ ˌniː.vɛˈdiː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nivedita stands.

Nivedita 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.

Niveditas before her.

Real people
Sister Nivedita
Iconic Vivekananda's disciple + women's education.
1867 – 1911
Nivedita Bhasin
First Indian woman international pilot.
born 1963
In fiction
Nivedita
Sanskrit dedicated one.

Names connected to Nivedita.

The number behind Nivedita.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nivedita reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.