Entry № 9248 · Sanskrit origin

Sarita Sarita — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-REE-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"River"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "river".

Sarita is from the Sanskrit Saritā.

River — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

सरिता
Transliteration
Saritā
Pronunciation
/ səˈriː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sarita stands.

Sarita 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.

Saritas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Sapta Sindhu / Rigveda rivers
Sanskrit river + Sapta Sindhu Seven Rivers Ganga + Yamuna + Saraswati + Sindhu + Godavari + Narmada + Kaveri + Rigveda river hymns
Hindu pilgrimage

Names connected to Sarita.

The number behind Sarita.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sarita reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.