Entry № 11711 · Sanskrit origin

Yashodha Yashodha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yah-SHOH-dha /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Buddha's wife"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "buddha's wife".

Yashodha is from the Sanskrit Yaśodharā (यशोधरा — bearer of glory) — variant of Buddhist name Yashodhara. Yashodhara (c. Sanskrit + Sinhala + Hindu feminine name.

Buddha's wife — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

यशोधरा
Transliteration
Yaśodharā
Pronunciation
/ jəˈʃoʊ.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yashodha stands.

Yashodha 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.

Yashodhas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Yashodhara (Buddhist)
Buddha's wife + Rāhula's mother.

Names connected to Yashodha.

The number behind Yashodha.

9

The Giver

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