Entry № 519 · Sanskrit origin

Amba Amba — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AHM-bah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Mahabharata princess who reincarnated as Shikhandi"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "mahabharata princess who reincarnated as shikhandi".

Amba (अम्बा) is the Sanskrit word for "mother." The eldest of three princesses of Kashi abducted by Bhishma for his half-brother Vichitravirya in the Mahabharata.

Mahabharata princess who reincarnated as Shikhandi — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

अम्बा
Transliteration
Ambā
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑːm.bə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Amba stands.

Amba 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.

Ambas before her.

Real people
Amba
Mahabharata princess.
In fiction
Amba
Featured in Devdutt Pattanaik's Sita and the Mahabharata.

Names connected to Amba.

The number behind Amba.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Amba reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.