Vimala as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Vimala

What is the meaning of the name Vimala ?

The baby name Vimala is a girl name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced /ʋɪ.mə.laː/.

Vimala is Sanskrit in Origin.

Vimala is the usual romanization of Sanskrit Vimalā, from the adjective vimala, an early Indo-Aryan form preserved in classical Sanskrit and Buddhist Pali. Its structure joins vi-, here a privative or separative prefix, to mala, dirt, stain, or impurity; the literal sense is therefore without stain, clean, pure, or spotless. As a feminine personal name, the final -ā marks grammatical gender in Sanskrit, though English spelling often omits the macron.

The name is at home in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain vocabulary of ritual and moral purity, and it appears in South Asian naming across Sanskrit-influenced languages. In Odisha, Bimala or Vimala is associated with the goddess shrine within the Jagannath temple complex at Puri. Regional spellings include Hindi Vimla, Bengali and Odia Bimala, and scholarly Vimalā; Vimal is the masculine form. In the United States, SSA records show only occasional registrations, with a small peak in 1981.