Reshma (रेशमा / ریشما) is from the Sanskrit-Urdu reshma — "silk, silken thread." Reshma Saujani (born 1975) — American attorney, activist, and politician; in 2010, ran for US Congress (lost) but became the first Indian American woman to run for the seat; in 2012 founded Girls Who Code, the nonprofit that by 2024 had taught computer science to 670,000+ girls in 50 US states and 8 countries — making it the largest organization in the world dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology. Her 2016 TED talk "Teach Girls Bravery, Not Perfection" has been viewed over 7 million times.
Subject of countless tech-industry diversity profiles.
Reshma 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Reshma reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.