Entry № 5091 · Sanskrit origin

Kadamba Kadamba — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-DAHM-bah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Kadamba tree / Krishna"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "kadamba tree / krishna".

Kadamba is from the Sanskrit Kadambā.

Kadamba tree / Krishna — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

कदम्बा
Transliteration
Kadambā
Pronunciation
/ kɑːˈdɑːm.bə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kadamba stands.

Kadamba 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.

Kadambas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kadamba tree Neolamarckia cadamba Krishna Vraja Kadamba-Kunja Rasa-Lila / Krishna Vrindavan / Sanskrit poetic / Bhagavata 10 childhood / Kadamba dynasty 345-540 Karnataka Mayura-Sharma Banavasi / Vaishno-Devi Kama-rupa Shakti-Pitha / Kadamba-Priya Parvati Durga / Kalidasa Meghaduta Kumarasambhava Shakuntala / Yakshi
Sanskrit Kadamba-tree Neolamarckia cadamba + Kadamba Krishnas-Vraja Kadamba-Kunja Rasa-Lila + Krishna-Kadamba-Vana Vrindavan + Kadamba-tree + Bhagavata Purana Canto 10 + Kadamba-dynasty 345-540 Karnataka Mayūra-Śarma Banavāsi + Kadambā-Devi Vaishno-Devi + Kāma-rūpa-Śakti-Pīṭha + Kadamba-Priya-Devi Parvati-Durga + Kalidasas Meghaduta + Kumārasambhava + Abhijñānaśākuntalam + Kadamba-Yakṣī
Kadamba Krishna

Names connected to Kadamba.

The number behind Kadamba.

6

The Nurturer

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