Entry № 8348 · Sanskrit origin

Pundarika Pundarika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ poon-DAH-ree-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"White lotus / Vishnu"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "white lotus / vishnu".

Pundarika is from the Sanskrit Puṇḍarīkā. Vishnu-devotee-Karnataka pan-Vaishnava heritage.

Vishnu-devotee-Karnataka pan-Vaishnava heritage

The name in its native script.

पुण्डरीका
Transliteration
Puṇḍarīkā
Pronunciation
/ puːnˈdɑː.ri.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pundarika stands.

Pundarika 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.

Pundarikas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Pundarikaksha Vishnu Sahasranama 40 / Padma Kamala Utpala Ambuja Pundarika 5 lotus / Saddharma-Pundarika Lotus Sutra Mahayana / Pundarika Dasa 13th c. Karnataka
Sanskrit white-lotus Nymphaea + puṇḍarīka white-lotus + Puṇḍarīkākṣa lotus-eyed Vishnu Sahasranama name-40 + Padma + Kamala + Utpala + Ambuja + Puṇḍarīka five-lotus-names + Buddhist Saddharma-Puṇḍarīka Lotus-Sutra Mahayana + Puṇḍarīka-Yajña Vedic + Puṇḍarīka Dāsa 13th c. Karnataka
Vishnu Pundarika

Names connected to Pundarika.

The number behind Pundarika.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pundarika reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.