Entry № 2077 · Indonesian origin

Citra Citra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHEE-trah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Indonesian
Meaning
"Image, picture"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "image, picture".

Citra is the Indonesian word for "image" — from the Sanskrit citrā (variegated, brilliant).

Citra is widely used in Indonesia. The Citra Award is Indonesia's top film prize, named after the goddess.

Image. The Indonesian-Sanskrit.

The name in its native script.

Citra
Transliteration
Citra
Pronunciation
/ ˈtʃiː.trə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Citra stands.

Citra 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.

Citras before her.

Real people
Citra Kirana
Indonesian actress.
born 1994
In fiction
Citra
Antagonist in Scythe.
Neal Shusterman, 2016

Names connected to Citra.

The number behind Citra.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Citra reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.