Entry № 10978 · Sanskrit origin

Urvashi Urvashi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OOR-vah-shee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Most beautiful apsara (wife of Pururavas)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "most beautiful apsara (wife of pururavas)".

Urvashi (उर्वशी) means "she who controls the heart." The most beautiful of all the apsaras (celestial nymphs) of Hindu mythology — born from the thigh of the sage Narayana. Her love affair with the mortal king Pururavas — the founding myth of the Lunar Dynasty — appears in the Rig Veda, the Shatapatha Brahmana, and Kalidasa's masterpiece play Vikramorvashiyam.

Most beautiful apsara. Subject of Kalidasa's Vikramorvashiyam.

The name in its native script.

उर्वशी
Transliteration
Urvaśī
Pronunciation
/ ˈʊər.və.ʃi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Urvashi stands.

Urvashi 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.

Urvashis before her.

Real people
Urvashi Rautela
Indian actress.
born 1994
In fiction
Urvashi
Kalidasa's Vikramorvashiyam.
5th c.

Names connected to Urvashi.

The number behind Urvashi.

8

The Visionary

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