Entry № 10346 · Sanskrit origin

Tapasya Tapasya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tah-PAHS-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Spiritual austerity"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "spiritual austerity".

Tapasya is from the Sanskrit Tapasyā.

Spiritual austerity — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

तपस्या
Transliteration
Tapasyā
Pronunciation
/ təˈpɑːs.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tapasya stands.

Tapasya 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.

Tapasyas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Patanjali niyama / Parvati tapas / Buddha austerities
Sanskrit spiritual austerity + tapas heat + Patanjali Yoga niyamas + Parvati performing tapas to win Shiva + Buddhas six years austerities + pan-Indic spirituality
Hindu yoga

Names connected to Tapasya.

The number behind Tapasya.

2

The Peacemaker

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