Sukhaprada (सुखप्रदा, IAST: Sukhapradā) is a Sanskrit-origin Hindu girl-name meaning “She who bestows happiness and joy”. From sukha (happiness, ease, joy) and pradā (the bestower, giver), this name celebrates the Goddess as the inexhaustible source of all genuine happiness, freely granted to those who seek her.

Meaning, etymology & significance

Sukha, the counterpart of duḥkha, encompasses not only ordinary pleasure but the deep ease and bliss that flows from alignment with the divine — and as Sukhapradā, the Goddess grants this blessing as a natural expression of her motherly nature. This name follows beautifully upon Duḥkhahantrī: she first destroys sorrow and then fills the emptied space with her own inexhaustible joy. In the devotional path, this dual quality — the removal of pain and the bestowal of bliss — is the very heart of the Goddess's grace.

Sukhapradā is an epithet appearing across many goddess traditions and is particularly beloved in the Śrī Vidyā tradition of Lalitā worship. Pronounced su-kha-pra-daa, it makes a melodious, auspicious name for a girl.

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Scriptural source

Sukhaprada appears in the Lalitha Sahasranama, among the sacred names of Lalitha.

Astrology — nakshatra, rashi & numerology

By the standard Vedic correspondence between a name’s first syllable and the lunar mansion, Sukhaprada aligns with the Shatabhisha nakshatra, under the Kumbha rashi (Moon sign). Its Chaldean name-number is 6.