Entry № 7359 · Sanskrit origin

Neera Neera — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ NEE-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Water / pure"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "water / pure".

Neera is from the Sanskrit Nīrā.

Water / pure — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

नीरा
Transliteration
Nīrā
Pronunciation
/ ˈniː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Neera stands.

Neera 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.

Neeras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Neera Arya INA Rani-Jhansi Regiment 1902-1998 / Neera Tanden White House Domestic Policy Director
Sanskrit water pure + Nīra-sāra water-essence Ayurveda + Nīra fresh-palm-nectar Marathi + Kannada + Neera Arya 1902-1998 INA Rani-of-Jhansi-Regiment Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose + Neera Tanden Indian-American White House-Domestic-Policy-Council Director 2023-
INA + politics

Names connected to Neera.

The number behind Neera.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Neera reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.