Entry № 3758 · Sanskrit origin

Gopa Gopa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GOH-pah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Cowherd / Buddhas wife"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "cowherd / buddhas wife".

Gopa is from the Sanskrit Gopā.

Cowherd / Buddhas wife — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

गोपा
Transliteration
Gopā
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡoʊ.pə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Gopa stands.

Gopa 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.

Gopas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Yashodhara-Gopa Buddha wife / Buddhacarita
Sanskrit cowherd protector + Yashodharā-Gopā wife of Siddhartha before Buddha + Buddhacarita by Ashvaghosha ~1st c. + Lalitavistara Sutra Mahayana + Sākya heritage + Lumbini
Buddhism

Names connected to Gopa.

The number behind Gopa.

3

The Communicator

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