Entry № 8943 · Sanskrit origin

Rupa Rupa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ROO-pah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Form / beauty"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "form / beauty".

Rupa is from the Sanskrit Rūpā.

Form / beauty — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

रूपा
Transliteration
Rūpā
Pronunciation
/ ˈruː.pə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Rupa stands.

Rupa 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.

Rupas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Buddhist Rupa-Skandha / Bhagavad Gita 11:52 / Rupa Goswami 1489-1564 Gaudiya
Sanskrit form beauty appearance + Rūpa form + Rūpa-Skandha one of Pañca-Skandha five-aggregates Buddhist + Bhagavad Gita 11:52 sudurdarśam idaṃ rūpaṃ dṛṣṭavān asi yan mama + Rūpa Gosvāmī 1489-1564 Gaudiya-Vaishnava disciple-of-Chaitanya-Mahaprabhu
Buddhist + Gaudiya

Names connected to Rupa.

The number behind Rupa.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Rupa reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.