Entry № 11365 · Sanskrit origin

Vismaya Vismaya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ vis-MAH-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Wonder, astonishment"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "wonder, astonishment".

It is one of the aesthetic emotions of Sanskrit poetics.

Wonder — the fresh amazement of first seeing.

The name in its native script.

विस्मया
Transliteration
Vismayā
Pronunciation
/ ʋisˈmɑː.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Vismaya stands.

Vismaya 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.

Vismayas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Vismaya.

The number behind Vismaya.

9

The Giver

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