Entry № 8917 · Sanskrit origin

Rudra Rudra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ROO-drah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Fierce / Shiva-form"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "fierce / shiva-form".

Rudra is from the Sanskrit Rudrā.

Fierce / Shiva-form — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Rudra
Transliteration
Rudrā
Pronunciation
/ ˈruː.drə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rudra stands.

Rudra 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.

Rudras before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Rudra.

The number behind Rudra.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rudra reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.