Entry № 7514 · Sanskrit origin

Nishagandha Nishagandha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nee-shah-GAHN-dhah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Night-fragrant"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "night-fragrant".

It carries quiet, hidden sweetness.

It reads soft and secret, beauty that comes with the evening.

Night-fragrant — the sweetness of evening bloom.

The name in its native script.

निशागन्धा
Transliteration
Niśāgandhā
Pronunciation
/ niː.ʃəˈɡən.dʱə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nishagandha stands.

Nishagandha 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.

Nishagandhas before her.

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Names connected to Nishagandha.

The number behind Nishagandha.

5

The Seeker

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