Entry № 9091 · Sanskrit origin

Sakuntala Sakuntala — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shah-KOON-tah-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Kalidasa Shakuntala / Bharatas mother"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "kalidasa shakuntala / bharatas mother".

Sakuntala is from the Sanskrit Śakuntalā.

Kalidasa Shakuntala / Bharatas mother — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

शकुन्तला
Transliteration
Śakuntalā
Pronunciation
/ ʃəˈkuːn.tə.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sakuntala stands.

Sakuntala 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.

Sakuntalas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kalidasa Abhijnanashakuntalam / Bharata Bharata-Varsha / Mahabharata Adi Parva 62-69 / Goethes praise
Sanskrit raised-by-Shakunta-birds + Kalidasas Abhijñānaśākuntalam Recognition-of-Shakuntala 7-act Sanskrit-drama ~4th c. + daughter of Vishvamitra + Menaka + wife of Duṣyanta + mother of Emperor Bharata Bhārata-Varṣa + Mahabharata Adi Parva 62-69 + Goethes praise foremost world-drama
Kalidasa masterpiece

Names connected to Sakuntala.

The number behind Sakuntala.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sakuntala reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.