Entry № 7911 · Sanskrit origin

Padmé Padmé — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PAD-may /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Lotus (Padmé Amidala, Star Wars Queen of Naboo)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "lotus (padmé amidala, star wars queen of naboo)".

Padmé is from the Sanskrit padma (पद्म) — "lotus" — the sacred flower of Hindu and Buddhist iconography, associated with the goddesses Lakshmi and Saraswati, and the most-pictured plant in Asian religious art. Played by Natalie Portman across The Phantom Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002), and Revenge of the Sith (2005); appears posthumously in Rogue One and Obi-Wan Kenobi; voiced by Catherine Taber in The Clone Wars (2008-2020).

Lotus (Padmé Amidala, Star Wars Queen of Naboo) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

पद्म
Transliteration
Padma
Pronunciation
/ ˈpɑːd.meɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Padmé stands.

Padmé 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.

Padmés before her.

Real people
Padmé
Various Hindu-Sanskrit literature.
In fiction
Padmé Amidala
Star Wars prequel trilogy.
1999

Names connected to Padmé.

The number behind Padmé.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Padmé reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.