Entry № 9125 · Sanskrit origin

Samatha Samatha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-MAH-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Equanimity / Buddhist calm-abiding"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "equanimity / buddhist calm-abiding".

Samatha is from the Sanskrit Samathā.

Equanimity / Buddhist calm-abiding — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

समथा
Transliteration
Samathā
Pronunciation
/ səˈmɑː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Samatha stands.

Samatha 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.

Samathas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Buddhist Samatha-Bhavana / Bhagavad Gita 2:48 samatvam yoga
Sanskrit equanimity calm-abiding + Samatha-Bhāvanā Buddhist calm-abiding + Vipassanā insight + Theravada + Mahayana + Vajrayana + Bhagavad Gita 2:48 samatvam yoga ucyate equanimity is called yoga
Buddhist meditation

Names connected to Samatha.

The number behind Samatha.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Samatha reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.