Entry № 9593 · Sanskrit origin

Shloka Shloka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHLOH-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Sanskrit verse couplet (Vedic poetic meter)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "sanskrit verse couplet (vedic poetic meter)".

Shloka is from the Sanskrit श्लोक (Śloka — song, verse, couplet). Shloka is one of the Sanskrit feminine names — central to traditional Hindu Vedic heritage. Sanskrit feminine name reflecting Hindu literary heritage.

Sanskrit verse couplet (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

श्लोक
Transliteration
Śloka
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃloʊ.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shloka stands.

Shloka 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.

Shlokas before her.

Real people
Valmiki
Sanskrit poet + Adi Kavi First Poet + invented shloka meter + Ramayana ~24,000 shlokas.
c. 5th century BCE
In fiction
Shloka
Sanskrit poetic couplet + Mahabharata + Ramayana + Bhagavad Gita.

Names connected to Shloka.

The number behind Shloka.

3

The Communicator

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