Sulochana as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Sulochana

What is the meaning of the name Sulochana ?

The baby name Sulochana is a girl name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced soo-LOH-chuh-nuh.

Sulochana is Sanskrit in Origin.

Sulochana is a Sanskrit feminine name, written सुलोचना and transliterated Sulocanā in scholarly IAST. Its earliest recoverable form is the Sanskrit adjective sulocanā, the feminine of sulocana, a bahuvrīhi compound: su- conveys good, fair, excellent, while locana denotes eye, sight, or organ of vision. The compound therefore signifies a woman possessing fine or lovely eyes, often rendered lovely-eyed or beautiful-eyed.

In Hindu literary usage, sulocanā could function as an epithet as well as a personal name, and Sulochana appears in later Ramayana-related traditions as the wife of Indrajit, also called Meghnad. The name belongs chiefly to Indian and Nepali Hindu naming practice, with regional spellings shaped by scripts such as Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada. Modern bearers include actress Sulochana Latkar and the silent-film star Ruby Myers, who worked under the screen name Sulochana. Variants include Sulocana, Sulochna, Sulochanaa, and the masculine Sulochan.