Entry № 8245 · Sanskrit origin

Prabha Prabha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PRAH-bah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Radiance / light"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "radiance / light".

Prabha is from the Sanskrit Prabhā.

Radiance / light — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Prabha
Transliteration
Prabhā
Pronunciation
/ ˈprɑː.bə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Prabha stands.

Prabha 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.

Prabhas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Prabha.

The number behind Prabha.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Prabha reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.