Entry № 10115 · Sanskrit origin

Sumitra Sumitra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soo-MIT-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Good friend"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "good friend".

Princess Sumitra — Hindu heritage naming.

Good friend (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

सुमित्रा
Transliteration
Sumitrā
Pronunciation
/ suːˈmɪt.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sumitra stands.

Sumitra 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.

Sumitras before her.

Real people
Sumitra Mahajan
Iconic Indian Lok Sabha Speaker + Padma Bhushan.
born 1943
In fiction
Sumitra (Ramayana)
Ramayana queen + Lakshmana's mother.

Names connected to Sumitra.

The number behind Sumitra.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sumitra reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.