Entry № 8540 · Lithuanian origin

Rasa Rasa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ RAH-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Lithuanian
Meaning
"Dew / aesthetic essence (Lithuanian + Sanskrit)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "dew / aesthetic essence (lithuanian + sanskrit)".

Rasa is from the Lithuanian rasa (dew) — also the Sanskrit rasa (essence, juice, aesthetic flavor). 200 BCE-200 CE) — the treatise on Indian classical performing arts — identifies the nine rasas (navarasa) including love, joy, sorrow, anger, fear, disgust, wonder, peace, and heroism; this concept has influenced Western literary theory through theorists including Susanne Langer. Rasa Veretto — Lithuanian-American figure. Rasa Tagor — Bengali-Sanskrit heritage figure.

Dew (Lithuanian) / aesthetic essence (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

Rasa
Transliteration
Rasa
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɑː.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rasa stands.

Rasa 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.

Rasas before her.

Real people
Rasa Juknevičienė
Lithuanian Defence Minister.
born 1958
In fiction
Rasa
Lithuanian dew + Sanskrit aesthetic essence.

Names connected to Rasa.

The number behind Rasa.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rasa reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.