Entry № 10096 · Sanskrit origin

Suma Suma — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SOO-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Flower"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "flower".

Suma is from the Sanskrit Sumā.

Flower — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

सुमा
Transliteration
Sumā
Pronunciation
/ ˈsuː.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Suma stands.

Suma 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.

Sumas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Hindu Puja flower offering
Sanskrit flower + Hindu Puja floral offering to deities + Sanskrit poetic-aesthetic + Suma Josson Indian filmmaker + pan-Hindu botanical-feminine naming
Hindu ritual

Names connected to Suma.

The number behind Suma.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Suma reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.