Entry № 11729 · Sanskrit origin

Yasoda Yasoda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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

A name that means "krishna's foster mother (the milkmaid queen)".

Yasoda (यशोदा) combines the Sanskrit yashas (fame, glory) and da (giver) — "giver of glory." The foster mother of Krishna — wife of the cowherd Nanda in Vrindavan, who raised Krishna when his birth-parents Devaki and Vasudeva had to hide him from his evil uncle Kamsa.

Featured in the Bhagavata Purana.

Krishna's foster mother (the milkmaid queen) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

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

Where Yasoda stands.

Yasoda 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.

Yasodas before her.

Real people
Yasoda
Sanskrit epic heroine.
In fiction
Yasoda
Bhagavata Purana.

Names connected to Yasoda.

The number behind Yasoda.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yasoda reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.