Entry № 9570 · Sanskrit origin

Shilpa Shilpa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHIL-pah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Art / craft (iconic Shilpa Shetty Bollywood)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "art / craft (iconic shilpa shetty bollywood)".

Shilpa is from the Sanskrit śilpa (शिल्प — art, craft, skill, fine art). Princess Shilpa — Hindu heritage naming.

Art / craft (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

शिल्पा
Transliteration
Śilpā
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃɪl.pə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shilpa stands.

Shilpa 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.

Shilpas before her.

Real people
Shilpa Shetty Kundra
Iconic Bollywood actress + Padma Shri 2025.
born 1975
In fiction
Shilpa
Sanskrit for art/craft.

Names connected to Shilpa.

The number behind Shilpa.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shilpa reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.