Padma is the Sanskrit word for the lotus, the pink flower that rises clean and perfect from muddy water. In Hindu and Buddhist thought it is among the most sacred of all symbols — of purity, spiritual awakening, and the unfolding of the soul.
It is the flower of the goddess Lakshmi, and so the name carries associations of beauty, grace and good fortune. Calm and dignified, it has been loved across India for millennia.
Serene and deeply meaningful, Padma is a bloom of a name with ancient roots.
Padma 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Padma reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.