Entry № 10046 · Sanskrit origin

Suchitra Suchitra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soo-CHIT-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Beautiful picture / Duryodhanas sister"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "beautiful picture / duryodhanas sister".

Suchitra is from the Sanskrit Suchitrā.

Beautiful picture / Duryodhanas sister — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

सुचित्रा
Transliteration
Suchitrā
Pronunciation
/ suːˈtʃi.trə /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Suchitra stands.

Suchitra 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.

Suchitras before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Suchitra daughter of Dhritarashtra Gandhari sister of 100 Kauravas Mahabharata Adi 108 / Dushala Jayadratha Sindhu / Suchitra Sen 1931-2014 Bengali Padma Shri 1972 Dadasaheb 2012 / Suchitra Mitra 1924-2011 Rabindra
Sanskrit beautiful-picture beautiful-form + su- good + citra picture + Suchitrā daughter of Dhritarāṣṭra + Gandhari sister of-100-Kauravas Mahabharata Adi Parva 108 + Duśśalā Jayadratha Sindhu + Suchitrā-Bharadvāja Vedic-Rishi + Suchitra Sen 1931-2014 Bengali Padma-Shri 1972 + Dadasaheb-Phalke 2012 + Suchitra Mitra 1924-2011 Rabindra-Sangeet Padma-Shri 1974 + Suchitra Krishnamoorthi b.1975
Suchitra Mahabharata

Names connected to Suchitra.

The number behind Suchitra.

9

The Giver

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