Entry № 10884 · Sanskrit origin

Ujjvala Ujjvala — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ooj-JVAH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Bright / luminous"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "bright / luminous".

Ujjvala is from the Sanskrit Ujjvalā. CE central in Gaudiya Vaishnava heritage pan-Hindu luminous-heritage.

CE central in Gaudiya Vaishnava heritage pan-Hindu luminous-heritage

The name in its native script.

उज्ज्वला
Transliteration
Ujjvalā
Pronunciation
/ uːdʒˈdʒvɑː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ujjvala stands.

Ujjvala 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.

Ujjvalas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ujjvala Yojana 2016 / Rupa Goswami Ujjvala-Nilamani
Sanskrit bright luminous blazing shining + ud- up + jval to blaze + Ujjvala Yojana Indian government-scheme 2016 LPG connections + Ujjvala Nīlamaṇi Sanskrit treatise on Krishna-Radha bhakti by Rūpa Gosvāmī ~16th c.
Hindu scheme + Gaudiya Vaishnava

Names connected to Ujjvala.

The number behind Ujjvala.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ujjvala reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.