Entry № 11713 · Sanskrit origin

Yashodhara Yashodhara — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yah-sho-DAH-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Bearer of glory (Buddha's wife)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "bearer of glory (buddha's wife)".

Yashodhara is widely used in India.

Bearer of glory. The Buddha's wife.

The name in its native script.

यशोधरा
Transliteration
Yaśodharā
Pronunciation
/ jəˈʃoʊ.dɑː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yashodhara stands.

Yashodhara 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.

Yashodharas before her.

Real people
Yashodhara
Buddha's wife.
c. 6th c. BCE
In fiction
Yashodhara
Common in Buddhist literature.

Names connected to Yashodhara.

The number behind Yashodhara.

1

The Leader

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