Sushmita is from the Sanskrit su- (well, good) + smita (smiled) — "with a beautiful smile" or "well-disposed." Sushmita Sen (born 1975) — Indian actress and former model; in 1994 became the first Indian woman ever to win the Miss Universe pageant, finishing ahead of Aishwarya Rai (Miss World 1994) in their two-week separation — together they began India's modern pageant dominance. Filmfare Best Female Debut for Dastak (1996). Padma Shri (2021).
Subject of countless 1990s Indian pageant retrospectives.
Sushmita 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sushmita reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.