Entry № 8357 · Sanskrit origin

Pushpa Pushpa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ POOSH-pah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Flower"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "flower".

Pushpa is from the Sanskrit Puṣpā.

Flower — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

पुष्पा
Transliteration
Puṣpā
Pronunciation
/ ˈpʊʃ.pə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pushpa stands.

Pushpa 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.

Pushpas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Bhagavad Gita 9:26 / Pushpa-puja
Sanskrit flower + Pushpa-puja flower-worship Hindu ritual + Bhagavad Gita 9:26 leaf flower fruit water + Lord Krishna teaching + pan-Hindu devotional heritage
Hindu devotional

Names connected to Pushpa.

The number behind Pushpa.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pushpa reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.