Entry № 9289 · Sanskrit origin

Saumya Saumya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SOWM-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Gentle, of the moon"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "gentle, of the moon".

Saumya (सौम्या) means "gentle" or "of the moon" (from Soma, the moon god). A traditional Hindu virtue name.

Saumya Tandon (born 1985) is the Indian actress.

Gentle. The Sanskrit moon-virtue.

The name in its native script.

सौम्या
Transliteration
Saumyā
Pronunciation
/ ˈsaʊm.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Saumya stands.

Saumya 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.

Saumyas before her.

Real people
Saumya Tandon
Indian actress.
born 1985
In fiction
Saumya
Common in Indian films.

Names connected to Saumya.

The number behind Saumya.

8

The Visionary

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