Entry № 9542 · Sanskrit origin

Sheetal Sheetal — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHEE-tahl /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Cool"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "cool".

Sheetal is from the Sanskrit Śītala.

Cool — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

शीतल
Transliteration
Śītala
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃiː.təl /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sheetal stands.

Sheetal 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.

Sheetals before her.

Real people

In fiction
Sheetala Devi / Sheetala Saptami
Sanskrit cool calm refreshing + Sheetala Devi goddess of cooling fever curing smallpox + Sheetala Saptami festival seventh day Krishna Paksha Chaitra + pan-North Indian + Bengali popular religion
Hindu folk-religion

Names connected to Sheetal.

The number behind Sheetal.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sheetal reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.