Entry № 8638 · Sanskrit origin

Rekha Rekha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ REH-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Line / row of stars (Rekha, Bollywood legend)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "line / row of stars (rekha, bollywood legend)".

Rekha (रेखा) is from the Sanskrit rekhā — "line, row, streak" — also poetic for a constellation or a line of stars. Rekha Ganesan (born 1954) — Indian actress whose 70+ year Hindi cinema career, beginning as a child in Tamil films and continuing through major comeback after 2003, has made her one of the most enduring icons of Bollywood. Padma Shri (2010) — India's fourth-highest civilian honor.

Line / row of stars.

The name in its native script.

रेखा
Transliteration
Rekhā
Pronunciation
/ ˈreː.kʰaː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rekha stands.

Rekha 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.

Rekhas before her.

Real people
Rekha Ganesan
Indian Bollywood actress.
born 1954
In fiction
Umrao Jaan
Umrao Jaan.
1981

Names connected to Rekha.

The number behind Rekha.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rekha reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.