Entry № 9181 · Sanskrit origin

Sanghamitra Sanghamitra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SAHN-gah-MEE-trah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Friend of Sangha / Ashokas daughter"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "friend of sangha / ashokas daughter".

Sanghamitra is from the Sanskrit Saṅghamitrā.

Friend of Sangha / Ashokas daughter — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

सङ्घमित्रा

Transliteration: Saṅghamitrā
Pronunciation: / ˈsɑːn.ɡəˈmiː.trə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Sanghamitra stands.

Sanghamitra 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.

Namesakes

Sanghamitras before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Sanghamitta Ashokas daughter / Bodhi Tree Anuradhapura 236 BCE / Sri Maha Bodhi oldest

Sanskrit friend-of-Sangha friend-of-Buddhist-community + saṅgha community + mitra friend + Saṅghamittā Therī daughter of Ashoka ~281 BCE + Mahinda + Charumati siblings + Buddhist ordination + Bodhi-Tree sapling from Bodh Gaya to Anuradhapura Sri Lanka 236 BCE + Sri Maha Bodhi oldest-continuously-documented-tree + Bhikkhunī-Sangha female-order

Ashokan Buddhist

Names connected to Sanghamitra.

Numerology

The number behind Sanghamitra.

The Communicator

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