Entry № 2011 · Sanskrit origin

Chitrangada Chitrangada — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHEE-trahn-gah-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Warrior-princess wife of Arjuna (Mahabharata)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "warrior-princess wife of arjuna (mahabharata)".

Chitrangada is from the Sanskrit Citrāṅgadā.

Warrior-princess wife of Arjuna (Mahabharata) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

चित्राङ्गदा
Transliteration
Citrāṅgadā
Pronunciation
/ ˌtʃiː.trɑːnˈɡɑː.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Chitrangada stands.

Chitrangada 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.

Chitrangadas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Chitrangada wife of Arjuna / Tagore 1892
Sanskrit warrior-princess wife of Arjuna in Mahabharata + Manipur princess + Manipur Ashvamedha + mother of Babhruvahana + Rabindranath Tagores Chitrangada 1892 Bengali dance-drama + Manipuri Ras Lila
Mahabharata + Bengali

Names connected to Chitrangada.

The number behind Chitrangada.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Chitrangada reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.