Entry № 9572 · Burmese origin

Shinsawbu Shinsawbu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHIN-saw-boo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Burmese
Meaning
"Only female Mon monarch (built Shwedagon)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Burmese)

A name that means "only female mon monarch (built shwedagon)".

Shinsawbu (1394-1471) was the only female monarch in the history of the Mon Kingdom of Hanthawaddy (lower Burma) — reigned 1453-1471. Her greatest achievement was the renovation and gilding of the Shwedagon Pagoda at Yangon (Rangoon) — Burma's holiest Buddhist site — adding gold equal to her own body weight.

Among the most beloved historical figures of Burma.

Only female Mon monarch.

The name in its native script.

ရှင်စောပု
Transliteration
Shin Saw Bu
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃɪn.sɔː.buː /
Root
—
Grammatical form
—

Where Shinsawbu stands.

Shinsawbu 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.

Shinsawbus before her.

Real people
Shinsawbu
Queen of the Mon Hanthawaddy Kingdom.
1394 – 1471
In fiction
Shinsawbu
Burmese chronicles.

Names connected to Shinsawbu.

The number behind Shinsawbu.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shinsawbu reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.