Uppalavanna was the Buddha's chief female disciple alongside Khema — declared foremost in supernatural powers (iddhi) among the bhikkhunīs. Originally born of remarkable beauty, she became enlightened and was famous for her magical attainments.
Featured in the Therigatha and Pali canon.
Uppalavanna 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Uppalavanna reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.