Entry № 9653 · Sanskrit origin

Shweta Shweta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHWEH-tah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"White / pure (Shvetaketu Upanishad)"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "white / pure (shvetaketu upanishad)".

Shweta is from the Sanskrit Śvetā.

White / pure (Shvetaketu Upanishad) — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

श्वेता

Transliteration: Śvetā
Pronunciation: / ˈʃwɛ.tə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Shweta stands.

Shweta 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.

Namesakes

Shwetas before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Shvetaketu / Tat Tvam Asi

Sanskrit white pure + Shvetaketu student of Chandogya Upanishad ~8th-6th c. BCE + Tat Tvam Asi That Thou Art teaching by Uddalaka Aruni + Advaita Vedanta + Shveta Dwipa White Island Vishnu

Hindu Upanishad

Names connected to Shweta.

Numerology

The number behind Shweta.

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shweta reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.