Entry № 8285 · Sanskrit origin

Pratima Pratima — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ prah-TEE-mah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Image / icon (Hindu murti)"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "image / icon (hindu murti)".

Pratima is from the Sanskrit Pratimā.

Image / icon (Hindu murti) — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

प्रतिमा

Transliteration: Pratimā
Pronunciation: / prəˈtiː.mə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Pratima stands.

Pratima 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.

Namesakes

Pratimas before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Hindu murti / Shilpa Shastra

Sanskrit image icon + Murti sacred image + puja worship + Shilpa Shastra Sanskrit iconography + Manasara + Mayamata iconographic texts + Hindu sculptural heritage

Hindu iconography

Names connected to Pratima.

Numerology

The number behind Pratima.

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pratima reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.