Entry № 10629 · Sanskrit origin

Tirthankara Tirthankara — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TEER-thahn-KAH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Ford-maker / Jain-Tirthankara"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "ford-maker / jain-tirthankara".

Tirthankara is from the Sanskrit Tīrthaṅkarā.

Ford-maker / Jain-Tirthankara — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Tirthankara
Transliteration
Tīrthaṅkarā
Pronunciation
/ ˌtiːr.tənˈkɑː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tirthankara stands.

Tirthankara 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.

Tirthankaras before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Tirthankara.

The number behind Tirthankara.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tirthankara reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.