Entry № 10103 · Other origin

Sumara Sumara — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soo-MAH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Memory / remembrance (Tupi-Guarani Brazilian Indigenous + Sanskrit dual)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Tupi-Sanskrit)

A name that means "memory / remembrance (tupi-guarani brazilian indigenous + sanskrit dual)".

Sumara is from both the Tupi-Guarani Sumara (sweet, gentle) and the Sanskrit Sumāra (memory, remembrance — from smara memory). Sumara is one of the Brazilian Indigenous + Sanskrit-derived feminine names — central to both Brazilian Indigenous Tupi-Guarani heritage Hindu Sanskrit memory + Kamadeva (Hindu god of love associated with Smara memory) heritage. Brazilian Romanticism + Indianist Movement.

Memory / sweet gentle (Tupi-Guarani + Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

Sumara
Transliteration
Sumara
Pronunciation
/ suːˈmɑː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sumara stands.

Sumara 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.

Sumaras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Sumara
Tupi-Sanskrit memory / sweet gentle.

Names connected to Sumara.

The number behind Sumara.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sumara reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.