Entry № 11101 · Sanskrit origin

Vanamala Vanamala — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VAH-nah-MAH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Forest-garland / Krishna epithet"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "forest-garland / krishna epithet".

Vanamala is from the Sanskrit Vanamālā.

Forest-garland / Krishna epithet — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

वनमाला
Transliteration
Vanamālā
Pronunciation
/ ˌvɑː.nɑːˈmɑː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Vanamala stands.

Vanamala 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.

Vanamalas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Krishna Vanamala / Vishnu Sahasranama Vanamali
Sanskrit forest-garland Krishnas sacred-garland five-kinds-of-wild-flowers to knees + iconographic-symbol + Bhagavata Purana + Vanamālī epithet in Vishnu Sahasranama + Krishna-Vrindavan bhakti
Hindu Vaishnava

Names connected to Vanamala.

The number behind Vanamala.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vanamala reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.