Entry № 9059 · Sanskrit origin

Sahitya Sahitya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-HEET-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Literature"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "literature".

Sahitya is from the Sanskrit Sāhityā.

Literature — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

साहित्या
Transliteration
Sāhityā
Pronunciation
/ səˈhiːt.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sahitya stands.

Sahitya 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.

Sahityas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Sahitya-Darpana 14th c. Vishvanatha Kaviraja 10 chapters / Bharata Natya-Shastra 200 BCE-200 CE 36 chapters 6000 verses / Sahitya Akademi 1954 24 Bhasha Awards
Sanskrit literature literary-composition + sahita together + Sāhitya Sanskrit-literature + Sāhitya-Darpaṇa 14th c. Viśvanātha Kavirāja poetics 10-chapters + Nātya-Śāstra Bharata Muni ~200 BCE-200 CE 36-chapters 6000-verses + Sāhitya Akademi 1954 Government-of-India + 24-Bhāṣā-Awards
Sanskrit literature

Names connected to Sahitya.

The number behind Sahitya.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sahitya reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.