Entry № 9781 · Sanskrit origin

Sitala Sitala — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SEE-tah-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Cool / Sitala Mata"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "cool / sitala mata".

Sitala is from the Sanskrit Sītalā.

Cool / Sitala Mata — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

सीतला
Transliteration
Sītalā
Pronunciation
/ ˈsiː.tə.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sitala stands.

Sitala 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.

Sitalas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Sitala Mata smallpox / Sitala-Ashtaka / Skanda Bhavishya Purana / Basoda cold-food
Sanskrit cool cold-touched Sitala Mata + sīta cold + Sītalā Mātā Devi-of-smallpox-fevers cools + heals + Sītalā-Aṣṭaka eight-verse hymn + Skanda Purana + Bhavishya Purana + Bengal + Bihar + Rajasthan + Gujarat + Sītalā-Aṣṭamī Chaitra-Krishna-Ashtami Basoda-cold-food-day + donkey-mount + neem-leaves + pot + broom + winnowing-fan
Hindu Shakta

Names connected to Sitala.

The number behind Sitala.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sitala reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.