Entry № 8271 · Sanskrit origin

Pramila Pramila — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PRAH-mee-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Warrior queen / Arjunas wife"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "warrior queen / arjunas wife".

Pramila is from the Sanskrit Pramīlā.

Warrior queen / Arjunas wife — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

प्रमीला
Transliteration
Pramīlā
Pronunciation
/ ˈprɑː.mi.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

What Pramila is built from.

Pramila is a compound name. Its parts are milŭ — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

milŭ
Slavic
“dear, gracious”

Where Pramila stands.

Pramila 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.

Pramilas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Pramila Amazon queen wife of Arjuna Mahabharata Ashvamedhika 30-32 / defeated Arjuna married / Jaiminiya Mahabharata / Pramila Nagpal Padma Shri 1994
Sanskrit drowsiness warrior-queen + Pramīlā Amazon-warrior-queen Strī-Rājya women-kingdom wife-of-Arjuna Mahabharata Ashvamedhika Parva 30-32 Ashvamedha-Yajna + defeated-Arjuna single-combat married + Jaiminīya Mahabharata + Pramīlā-Vasu + Pramila Nagpal 1919-2020 Padma-Shri 1994
Mahabharata Pramila

Names connected to Pramila.

The number behind Pramila.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pramila reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.