Sudha as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Sudha

What is the meaning of the name Sudha ?

The baby name Sudha is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced SOO-dhaa.

Sudha is Sanskrit in Origin.

Sudha is the Sanskrit feminine noun सुधा, transliterated sudhā, with the long final ā marking the usual feminine stem. Its literal sense is nectar or ambrosia, especially the divine drink associated in Sanskrit literature with immortality; lexicons also record extended senses such as water and, by poetic epithet, the Ganges. The dh represents an aspirated dental stop, not the English th sound.

As a personal name, Sudha belongs to the Sanskritic naming stock shared by Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Nepali, Tamil, Telugu, and other Indian-language communities. Hindu usage often connects it semantically with amṛta, the mythic nectar churned from the ocean, and some devotional name lists associate Sudha with Lakshmi. It became especially recognizable in twentieth-century India and the diaspora, helped by public figures such as writer and philanthropist Sudha Murty. Spellings with diacritics, notably Sudhā, appear in scholarly transliteration.