Entry № 8170 · Sanskrit origin

Pingala Pingala — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PIN-gah-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Sun-channel / Pingala nadi"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "sun-channel / pingala nadi".

Pingala is from the Sanskrit Piṅgalā. BCE with binary-numeral-system pan-Hindu Yoga heritage.

BCE with binary-numeral-system pan-Hindu Yoga heritage

The name in its native script.

पिङ्गला
Transliteration
Piṅgalā
Pronunciation
/ ˈpɪn.ɡə.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pingala stands.

Pingala 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.

Pingalas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Pingala-Ida-Sushumna Kundalini Yoga / Pingala Chandahshastra binary ~3rd c. BCE / Hatha Yoga Pradipika
Sanskrit solar-channel tawny-yellow + Piṅgalā-Nāḍī solar-right + Iḍā-Nāḍī lunar-left + Suṣumnā-Nāḍī central-spinal + Kundalini Yoga + Hatha Yoga Pradipika Svātmārāma ~15th c. + Śiva Saṃhitā + Gheranda-Saṃhitā + Piṅgala Sage Chandaḥśāstra Sanskrit prosody ~3rd-2nd c. BCE binary-numeral
Yoga + math

Names connected to Pingala.

The number behind Pingala.

6

The Nurturer

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