Entry № 10994 · Sanskrit origin

Ushnisha Ushnisha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OOSH-nee-shah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Turban-crown / Buddha-crown"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "turban-crown / buddha-crown".

Ushnisha is from the Sanskrit Uṣṇīṣā.

Turban-crown / Buddha-crown — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Ushnisha
Transliteration
Uṣṇīṣā
Pronunciation
/ ˈuːʃ.ni.ʃə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ushnisha stands.

Ushnisha 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.

Ushnishas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Ushnisha.

The number behind Ushnisha.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ushnisha reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.