Given name

Kaushalya

Kaushalya is a feminine given name from Sanskrit.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Kaushalya comes from Sanskrit.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Sanskrit कौशल्या.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Kaushalya’s family of names

In English usage, Kaushalya has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form कौशल्या.

Walk Kaushalya’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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“gentle, calm”

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