What does the name Kokila mean?

Kokila means "Cuckoo bird, sweet-voiced". It is a girl's name of Kannada origin.

Kokila

Kokila means Cuckoo bird, sweet-voiced.

Gender	girl
Origin	Kannada
Language	Kannada
Starts with	K

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Cuckoo bird, sweet-voiced”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Kokilabai — Cuckoo bird lady, sweet voiced woman
Piyu — Sweet, cuckoo
Kuhu — Song of the cuckoo; sweet melodious bird
Kunjal — Cuckoo bird; melodious singer
Kokilavani — Voice of the cuckoo bird
Kadambari — A cuckoo, name of a novel, Goddess Saraswati

More girls' names of Kannada origin

Mythri — Friendship, benevolence
Kaveri — The sacred Kaveri river of Karnataka
Soundarya — Beauty, charm, elegance
Yashaswini — Famous, glorious, successful woman
Mamatha — Love, affection, maternal feeling
Malavika — A woman from Malwa, classical heroine

Where this comes from

Kokila has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.