Entry № 9813 · Sanskrit origin

Sloka Sloka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHLOH-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Verse (Vedic verse form)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "verse (vedic verse form)".

Sloka is from the Sanskrit Śloka.

Verse (Vedic verse form) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

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

Where Sloka stands.

Sloka 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.

Slokas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Valmiki śloka / Mahabharata
Sanskrit verse + Mahabharata + Ramayana + Bhagavad Gita in śloka + Valmikis original śloka legend of origin of Sanskrit poetry + anuṣṭubh meter
Sanskrit poetry

Names connected to Sloka.

The number behind Sloka.

4

The Builder

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