Entry № 9201 · Sanskrit origin

Sansa Sansa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SAN-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Praise (Game of Thrones' Queen in the North)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "praise (game of thrones' queen in the north)".

Sansa is from the Sanskrit saṃsā — "praise, charm" — and was chosen by author George R. R. A top-1000 US baby name since 2013. In Sanskrit literature, Saṃsā is also a feminine name in the Mahābhārata; in Catalan, sansa refers to dried olive pomace.

Praise (Game of Thrones' Queen in the North) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Sansa
Transliteration
Sansa
Pronunciation
/ ˈsæn.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sansa stands.

Sansa 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.

Sansas before her.

Real people
Sansa
Various Sanskrit references.
In fiction
Sansa Stark
Game of Thrones.
2011

Names connected to Sansa.

The number behind Sansa.

9

The Giver

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