Entry № 9146 · Filipino origin

Sampaguita Sampaguita — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sahm-pah-GEE-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Filipino
Meaning
"The Filipino national flower (jasmine)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Filipino)

A name that means "the filipino national flower (jasmine)".

Sampaguita is the Filipino name for the small white jasmine that is the national flower of the Philippines. The name comes from the Tagalog phrase sumpa kita ("I promise you"), traditionally exchanged by lovers.

Sampaguita is rare but iconic in the Philippines.

The Filipino national flower. "I promise you."

The name in its native script.

Sampaguita
Transliteration
Sampaguita
Pronunciation
/ ˌsɑːm.pəˈɡiː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sampaguita stands.

Sampaguita 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.

Sampaguitas before her.

Real people
Sampaguita
Filipino singer (born Tessie Asuncion).
born 1957
In fiction
Sampaguita
Common in Filipino fiction.

Names connected to Sampaguita.

The number behind Sampaguita.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sampaguita reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.