Entry № 4095 · Sanskrit origin

Harshada Harshada — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hahr-SHAH-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Giver of joy"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "giver of joy".

Harshada is from harṣa (joy, delight) with -dā (giver) — one who bestows gladness.

Giver of joy — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

हर्षदा
Transliteration
Harṣadā
Pronunciation
/ hərˈʃɑː.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Harshada stands.

Harshada 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.

Harshadas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Harshada.

The number behind Harshada.

6

The Nurturer

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