Entry № 8281 · Sanskrit origin

Prathama Prathama — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ prah-THAH-mah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"First"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "first".

Prathama is from the Sanskrit Prathamā.

First — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

प्रथमा

Transliteration: Prathamā
Pronunciation: / prəˈθɑː.mə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Prathama stands.

Prathama 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.

Namesakes

Prathamas before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Panini Astadhyayi

Sanskrit first + Vedic ritual ordering + Prathama first day of lunar fortnight + Panini Astadhyayi ~4th c. BCE Sanskrit grammar treatise + pan-Indian linguistic heritage

Sanskrit grammar

Names connected to Prathama.

Numerology

The number behind Prathama.

The Nurturer

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