Entry № 10189 · Sanskrit origin

Svaha Svaha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SVAH-hah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Vedic-oblation-mantra / Agnis-wife"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "vedic-oblation-mantra / agnis-wife".

Svaha is from the Sanskrit Svāhā.

Vedic-oblation-mantra / Agnis-wife — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Svaha
Transliteration
Svāhā
Pronunciation
/ ˈsvɑː.hə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Svaha stands.

Svaha 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.

Svahas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Svaha.

The number behind Svaha.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Svaha reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.