Entry № 7019 · Sanskrit origin

Mudita Mudita — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ moo-DEE-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Sympathetic joy (Buddhist sublime state)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "sympathetic joy (buddhist sublime state)".

Mudita (मुदिता) is the Sanskrit-Pali word for "sympathetic joy" — the third of the four Brahmavihārās of Buddhism (with karuna, maitri, and upekkha).

Sympathetic joy. The Buddhist sublime state.

The name in its native script.

मुदिता
Transliteration
Muditā
Pronunciation
/ muːˈdiː.tə /
Root
—
Grammatical form
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Where Mudita stands.

Mudita 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.

Muditas before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Mudita
Buddhist sublime state.
Pali Canon

Names connected to Mudita.

The number behind Mudita.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mudita reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.