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
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Grammatical form
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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

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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.