Entry № 8332 · Sanskrit origin

Protima Protima — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PROH-tee-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Image (Protima Bedi - Odissi dancer + Nrityagram founder)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "image (protima bedi - odissi dancer + nrityagram founder)".

Protima is from the Sanskrit pratimā (प्रतिमा — image, statue). Protima Bedi (Protima Gupta, 1948-1998) was an Indian model and classical Odissi dancer — and founder of Nrityagram (1990), India's first modern dance commune for classical dance, located outside Bangalore.

Image (Protima Bedi - Odissi dancer + Nrityagram founder) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

प्रतिमा
Transliteration
Pratimā
Pronunciation
/ ˈproʊ.tɪ.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Protima stands.

Protima 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.

Protimas before her.

Real people
Protima Bedi
Odissi dancer + Nrityagram founder.
1948 – 1998
In fiction
Protima
Sanskrit image.

Names connected to Protima.

The number behind Protima.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Protima reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.