Entry № 9595 · Sanskrit origin

Shobana Shobana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHOH-bah-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Beautiful (iconic Shobana - Bharatanatyam + Padma Shri)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "beautiful (iconic shobana - bharatanatyam + padma shri)".

Shobana is from the Sanskrit śobhanā (शोभना — beautiful, splendid, radiant). Princess Shobana — Hindu heritage naming.

Beautiful (iconic Shobana - Bharatanatyam + Padma Shri) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

शोभना
Transliteration
Śobhanā
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃoʊ.bə.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shobana stands.

Shobana 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.

Shobanas before her.

Real people
Shobana Chandrakumar
Iconic Bharatanatyam + 2x National Film Award + Padma Shri 2006 + Manichitrathazhu.
born 1970
In fiction
Shobana
Sanskrit beautiful.

Names connected to Shobana.

The number behind Shobana.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shobana reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.