Entry № 10037 · Sanskrit origin

Subhadra Subhadra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soob-HAH-drah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Auspicious (Krishna's sister, Arjuna's wife)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "auspicious (krishna's sister, arjuna's wife)".

Subhadra was the sister of Krishna and Balarama in the Mahabharata — she eloped with Arjuna (with Krishna's approval) and bore his great son Abhimanyu, father of King Parikshit. In Jagannath temple traditions, she is worshipped alongside her brothers.

Featured in the Mahabharata and the Bhagavata Purana.

Auspicious. Krishna's sister who eloped with Arjuna.

The name in its native script.

सुभद्रा
Transliteration
Subhadrā
Pronunciation
/ sʊbˈhɑː.drə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Subhadra stands.

Subhadra 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.

Subhadras before her.

Real people
Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
Indian poet-revolutionary.
1904 – 1948
In fiction
Subhadra
Mahabharata.

Names connected to Subhadra.

The number behind Subhadra.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Subhadra reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.