Given name
Varsha
“of the rain”
Varsha is used as a given name. One Hindi interpretation is “of the rain.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “of the rain.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hindi.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1968. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Varsha through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 938
- 0 boys · 938 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 49 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,805 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −40%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,805 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,503 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Varsha’s family of names
Varsha has a related form in Varshah. In English usage, Varsha was borrowed from वर्षा.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Varsha
- Varsha AdaljaIndian Gujarati language authorborn 1940
- Varsha UsgaonkarIndian actressborn 1968
- Varsha Bhoslesinger, Columnist (1956–2012)
- Varsha BollammaIndian actress who performed in Tamil and Malayalam filmsborn 1995
- Varsha VarmanIndian sport shooterborn 1994
- Varsha Raffelcricketerborn 1975
- Varsha AshwathiIndian actressborn 1989
- Varsha DixitIndian writer
- Varsha GauthamIndian sailorborn 1998
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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