Entry № 11010 · Sanskrit origin

Uttara Uttara — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ oo-TAH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Northern / Princess Uttara wife of Abhimanyu (Mahabharata)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "northern / princess uttara wife of abhimanyu (mahabharata)".

Uttara is from the Sanskrit उत्तरा (Uttarā — northern, higher, superior). Uttara is one of the Sanskrit feminine names — central to traditional Hindu Vedic heritage. Sanskrit feminine name reflecting Hindu epic heritage.

Northern / Princess Uttara wife of Abhimanyu (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

उत्तरा
Transliteration
Uttarā
Pronunciation
/ uːˈtɑː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Uttara stands.

Uttara 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.

Uttaras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Princess Uttara
Wife of Abhimanyu + mother of Parikshit + daughter of King Virata of Matsya + Mahabharata.
Mahabharata

Names connected to Uttara.

The number behind Uttara.

9

The Giver

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