Entry № 11709 · Sanskrit origin

Yashoda Yashoda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yah-SHOH-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Krishna's foster mother"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "krishna's foster mother".

Yashoda is from the Sanskrit yaśodā (यशोदा — giver of fame, bestower of glory). Yashoda Devi — modern Indian-American figure. Princess Yashoda — modern Hindu royal heritage naming.

Krishna's foster mother (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

यशोदा
Transliteration
Yaśodā
Pronunciation
/ jəˈʃoʊ.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yashoda stands.

Yashoda 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.

Yashodas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Yashoda (Krishna)
Iconic Hindu Krishna's foster mother.

Names connected to Yashoda.

The number behind Yashoda.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yashoda reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.