Entry № 4918 · Sanskrit origin

Jhilmila Jhilmila — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JIL-mee-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Shimmering / twinkling"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "shimmering / twinkling".

Jhilmila is from the Sanskrit Jhilmilā.

Shimmering / twinkling — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

झिलमिला
Transliteration
Jhilmilā
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒɪl.mi.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

What Jhilmila is built from.

Jhilmila is a compound name. Its parts are milŭ — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

milŭ
Slavic
“dear, gracious”

Where Jhilmila stands.

Jhilmila 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.

Jhilmilas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Diwali Jhilmil lamps / Kalidasa / Bollywood songs
Sanskrit shimmering twinkling glittering + Hindi jhilmil shimmer + Sanskrit + Hindi poetic + Dīpāvalī Jhilmil-lamp-decorations + Kalidasa + Bollywood song + Jhilmila Delhi neighborhood + Jhilmila Devi Bengali film
Hindu aesthetics

Names connected to Jhilmila.

The number behind Jhilmila.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jhilmila reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.