Entry № 10904 · Sanskrit origin

Uma Uma — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OO-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Splendor / Parvati (Uma Thurman, Pulp Fiction + Kill Bill)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "splendor / parvati (uma thurman, pulp fiction + kill bill)".

Uma (उमा) is one of the names of the Hindu goddess Parvati — wife of Shiva, mother of Ganesha and Karttikeya, goddess of fertility, love, devotion, and divine power. 1 (2003) and Vol. Uma da Cunha — Indian film historian. Uma Devi Khatri (1923-2003) — Bollywood playback singer.

Splendor / Parvati (Uma Thurman, Pulp Fiction + Kill Bill) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

उमा
Transliteration
Umā
Pronunciation
/ ˈuː.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Uma stands.

Uma 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.

Umas before her.

Real people
Uma Thurman
American Oscar-nominated actress.
born 1970
Uma Bharti
Indian politician.
born 1959
Uma Devi Khatri
Bollywood playback singer.
1923 – 2003
In fiction
Mia Wallace
Pulp Fiction.
1994
Parvati / Uma
Hindu goddess.

Names connected to Uma.

The number behind Uma.

8

The Visionary

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