Entry № 8299 · Sanskrit origin

Prema Prema — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PREH-mah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Divine love"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "divine love".

Prema is from the Sanskrit Premā.

Divine love — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

प्रेमा
Transliteration
Premā
Pronunciation
/ ˈprɛ.mə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Prema stands.

Prema 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.

Premas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Prema highest Bhakti / Rupa Goswami Bhakti-Rasamrita-Sindhu 16th c. / Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486-1534 / Sri Sathya Sai Baba Prema-Vahini
Sanskrit love-divine spiritual-love + prī to love + Premā highest-Bhakti Gaudiya Vaishnavism + Śraddhā + Ruci + Rati + Rupa Gosvāmī Bhakti-Rasāmṛta-Sindhu 16th c. + Ujjvala-Nīlamaṇi Gaudiya-aesthetics + Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486-1534 Prema-Bhakti + Prema-Vivarta Bengali + Sri Sathya Sai Baba Prema-Vāhinī
Bhakti Prema

Names connected to Prema.

The number behind Prema.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Prema reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.