Entry № 242 · Sanskrit origin

Ahalya Ahalya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-HAL-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Unploughed (redeemed by Rama's feet)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "unploughed (redeemed by rama's feet)".

Ahalya (अहल्या) means "unploughed, beyond reproach" in Sanskrit. The wife of the sage Gautama in the Ramayana — tricked by Indra into adultery, she was cursed by Gautama to become stone.

Featured in the Ramayana and many later texts.

Unploughed. Cursed to stone; restored by Rama's feet.

The name in its native script.

अहल्या
Transliteration
Ahalyā
Pronunciation
/ əˈhɑːl.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ahalya stands.

Ahalya 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.

Ahalyas before her.

Real people
Ahalya
Sanskrit epic heroine.
In fiction
Ahalya
Ramayana.

Names connected to Ahalya.

The number behind Ahalya.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ahalya reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.