Silpa
Silpa means Craft, art; the artist.
| Gender | girl |
| Origin | Bengali |
| Language | Bengali |
| Starts with | S |
Classical Sanskrit origin
शिल्प (śilpa): skill in any art or craft or work of art, ingenuity, contrivance.
Source: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), a public-domain scholarly reference — not every popular name today traces to a classical dictionary entry, so this section only appears where a verified match exists.
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Craft, art; the artist”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Shilpa — Well proportioned, craft, artistry
- Oviya — Artist, beautiful
- Chitranger — Colorful and vivid, artist of colors
More girls' names of Bengali origin
- Meghna — The river Meghna; cloud-river of Bengal
- Shiuli — Night jasmine flower; fragrant autumn bloom
- Tanushree — One with a beautiful body; graceful woman
- Oishee — Divine, of God; belonging to the divine
- Doyel — The Oriental Magpie Robin; national bird of Bangladesh
- Rimjhim — Sound of light rain; pitter-patter of monsoon
Where this comes from
Silpa's etymology is verified against Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899). 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.