Entry № 10963 · Sanskrit origin

Urmija Urmija — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ OOR-mee-jah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Wave-born / ocean-daughter"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "wave-born / ocean-daughter".

Urmija is from the Sanskrit Ūrmijā.

Wave-born / ocean-daughter — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

ऊर्मिजा
Transliteration
Ūrmijā
Pronunciation
/ ˈuːr.mi.dʒə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Urmija stands.

Urmija 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.

Urmijas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Urmila daughter of Janaka Sunayana sister of Sita Ramayana Bala 71 / wife of Lakshmana / 14-year sleep during exile / Angada Chandraketu twin sons Karpataka Chandrakanta / Valmiki Uttara Kanda Kambar Ramavataram
Sanskrit wave-born wave-daughter + ūrmi wave + ja born + Ūrmilā daughter of King-Janaka + Sunayana Mithila sister of Sita Ramayana Bala Kanda 71 + wife of Lakshmana + 14-year-uninterrupted-sleep Lakshmanas 14-year-exile-with-Rama + Aṅgada + Chandraketu twins Karpāṭaka + Chandrakānta + Valmiki Ramayana Uttara Kanda + Kambar Ramavataram + Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇa + Tulsidas
Urmila Ramayana

Names connected to Urmija.

The number behind Urmija.

9

The Giver

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