Entry № 8282 · Sanskrit origin

Pratibha Pratibha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ prah-TEE-bhah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Brilliance (iconic Pratibha Patil — first female President of India)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "brilliance (iconic pratibha patil — first female president of india)".

Pratibha is from the Sanskrit pratibhā (प्रतिभा — brilliance, talent, intuition, genius). Princess Pratibha — Hindu heritage naming.

Brilliance / genius (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

प्रतिभा
Transliteration
Pratibhā
Pronunciation
/ prəˈtiː.bʰə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pratibha stands.

Pratibha 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.

Pratibhas before her.

Real people
Pratibha Patil
Iconic 1st female President of India 2007-2012.
born 1934
Pratibha Ray
Indian Odia novelist + Jnanpith Award 2011.
born 1943
In fiction
Pratibha
Sanskrit for brilliance.

Names connected to Pratibha.

The number behind Pratibha.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pratibha reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.