Entry № 4194 · Sanskrit origin

Hema Hema — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HEH-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Golden"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "golden".

Hema (हेमा) is the Sanskrit word for "gold" — also from hima (snow, as in Himalaya). An epithet of Parvati and Lakshmi.

Hema Malini (born 1948) is the "Dream Girl" of Bollywood — legendary actress and politician.

Golden. The Dream Girl Hema Malini.

The name in its native script.

हेमा
Transliteration
Hemā
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɛ.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hema stands.

Hema 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.

Hemas before her.

Real people
Hema Malini
Indian "Dream Girl" actress.
born 1948
In fiction
Hema
Common in Indian films.

Names connected to Hema.

The number behind Hema.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hema reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.