Entry № 9520 · Sanskrit origin

Sharmila Sharmila — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shar-MEE-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Modest / protector (Sharmila Tagore Bollywood)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "modest / protector (sharmila tagore bollywood)".

Sharmila is from the Sanskrit śarmilā (modest, protector, gives joy). Sharmila Roy Pommot — Indian-French historian. Sharmila Bhattacharya — modern Indian-American academic.

Modest / protector (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

शर्मिला
Transliteration
Śarmilā
Pronunciation
/ ʃɑːrˈmiː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

What Sharmila is built from.

Sharmila is a compound name. Its parts are milŭ — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

milŭ
Slavic
“dear, gracious”

Where Sharmila stands.

Sharmila 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.

Sharmilas before her.

Real people
Sharmila Tagore
Indian Bollywood Padma Bhushan actress.
born 1944
Sharmila Irom Chanu
Indian activist (Iron Lady, 16-yr fast).
born 1972
In fiction
Sharmila
Sanskrit modest/protector.

Names connected to Sharmila.

The number behind Sharmila.

9

The Giver

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