Entry № 10236 · Sanskrit origin

Tabu Tabu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TAH-boo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Iconic Tabu — 2x National Award + Padma Shri"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Arabic)

A name that means "iconic tabu — 2x national award + padma shri".

Princess Tabu — Sanskrit-Arabic heritage naming.

Smile of fortune.

The name in its native script.

तबू
Transliteration
Tabu
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɑː.buː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tabu stands.

Tabu 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.

Tabus before her.

Real people
Tabu (Tabassum Hashmi)
Iconic Indian 2x National Film Award + Padma Shri.
born 1971
In fiction
Tabu
Iconic Indian acting heritage.

Names connected to Tabu.

The number behind Tabu.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tabu reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.