Entry № 6169 · Sanskrit origin

Madhubala Madhubala — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MAH-dhoo-BAH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Honey-girl (Bollywood's Venus, Mughal-e-Azam)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern (Hindi)

A name that means "honey-girl (bollywood's venus, mughal-e-azam)".

Died at 36 from a congenital heart defect.

Featured on a 2008 Indian postage stamp.

Honey-girl (Bollywood's Venus, Mughal-e-Azam) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

मधुबाला
Transliteration
Madhubālā
Pronunciation
/ ˌmɑː.duːˈbɑː.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Madhubala stands.

Madhubala 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.

Madhubalas before her.

Real people
Madhubala
Hindi cinema actress.
1933 – 1969
In fiction
Anarkali
Mughal-e-Azam.
1960

Names connected to Madhubala.

The number behind Madhubala.

9

The Giver

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