Bahula is from the Sanskrit Bahulā. A modern American baby name in the broader Sanskrit heritage aesthetic. Bahula is a foundational name with deep heritage. Sanskrit Bahulā abundant plentiful copious + Sanskrit bahu much + foundational central Bahulā foundational-central-cow-devotee of Krishna in-Puranic-narrative + foundational central Bahulā-Aṣṭamī Kartika-Krishna-Ashtami foundational-central-cow-worship-festival commemorating Bahula-cows devotion + foundational central Bahulā-Krishna narrative Bahula-cow saved-from-lion by-Krishna after-vowing-to-feed-calf-first + foundational central in Skanda Purana Kartika-Māsa-Māhātmya + foundational central Kāmadhenu Divine-cow foundational-central-mother of-all-cows appeared-from Samudra-Manthan Ocean-Churning given-to Vasishtha-Rishi + foundational central Nandini + Surabhi + Pushkara + Bahula five-cosmic-cows in-Puranic-tradition + foundational central Bahulā-Nakshatra Rohini-alternative-name 4th of 27 Nakshatras + foundational pan-Vaishnava heritage. Foundational Sanskrit feminine name reflecting cultural + historical heritage spanning centuries.
Featured throughout Sanskrit heritage.
Bahula does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bahula reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.