Entry № 8495 · Sanskrit origin

Raksha Raksha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RAHK-shah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Protection / safeguard"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "protection / safeguard".

Raksha is from the Sanskrit Rakṣā.

Protection / safeguard — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Raksha
Transliteration
Rakṣā
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɑːk.ʃə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Raksha stands.

Raksha 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.

Rakshas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Raksha.

The number behind Raksha.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Raksha reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.