Entry № 10986 · Sanskrit origin

Usha Usha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OO-shah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Dawn (Hindu goddess + Usha Vance modern political)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "dawn (hindu goddess + usha vance modern political)".

Usha is from the Sanskrit uṣas (dawn). Usha in Hindu mythology — the Hindu goddess of dawn; daughter of Dyaus (sky god); sister of the night goddess Ratri; appears throughout the Rigveda — Usha Sukta (Rigveda 1.48 and 1.92) hymns celebrate her arrival as the renewing principle of creation; one of the most-celebrated cosmological figures in Vedic Hinduism; cognate with the Greek Eos and Roman Aurora; one of the Indo-European feminine divinities. Usha Nadkarni — Indian Marathi actress.

Dawn (Hindu goddess + Usha Vance modern political) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

उषा
Transliteration
Uṣā
Pronunciation
/ ˈuː.ʃə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Usha stands.

Usha 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.

Ushas before her.

Real people
Usha Vance
First Indian-American US Second Lady (2025).
born 1986
PT Usha
Indian Olympic sprinter (Payyoli Express).
born 1964
Usha Uthup
Indian singer; Padma Bhushan.
born 1947
In fiction
Usha
Hindu Vedic dawn goddess.

Names connected to Usha.

The number behind Usha.

4

The Builder

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