Entry № 8364 · Sanskrit origin

Pushya Pushya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ POOSH-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Pushya Nakshatra / auspicious"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "pushya nakshatra / auspicious".

Pushya is from the Sanskrit Puṣyā.

Pushya Nakshatra / auspicious — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

पुष्या
Transliteration
Puṣyā
Pronunciation
/ ˈpʊʃ.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pushya stands.

Pushya 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.

Pushyas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Pushya 8th Nakshatra most auspicious / Brihaspati ruling / Pushyamitra Shunga 185-149 BCE Mauryan / Cancer constellation
Sanskrit 8th-Nakshatra nourishing + puṣ to nourish + Puṣya 8th of 27 Nakshatras + most-auspicious Devaguru Bṛhaspati ruling-deity + Puṣya-Māsa Pausha December-January + Puṣya-Snāna royal-bathing + Puṣyāmitra Śuṅga 185-149 BCE founder Sunga dynasty overthrew Mauryan + udder-of-cow + arrow + Cancer
Vedic Pushya

Names connected to Pushya.

The number behind Pushya.

9

The Giver

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