What does the name Suma mean?

Suma means "Flower, blossom". It is a girl's name of Dravidian origin.

What is the classical Sanskrit origin of Suma?

सुम (suma): a flower, per the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).

Suma

Suma means Flower, blossom.

Gender	girl
Origin	Dravidian
Language	Malayalam
Starts with	S

Classical Sanskrit origin

सुम (suma): a flower.

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 “Flower, blossom”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Pushpa — Flower, blossom, offering
Mohua — Mahua flower; sweet intoxicating blossom
Mukul — Bud, blossom beginning to open
Kusuma — Flower, blossom, in full bloom
Yuthika — Jasmine, flower cluster, blossom
Aamrapali — Mango blossom, leaf of mango tree

More girls' names of Dravidian origin

Nila — Blue, moon, river of moonlight
Nanma — Goodness, virtue, excellence
Raji — Shining, glowing, Kerala traditional
Komala — Tender, delicate, soft
Nilambari — Blue sky, wearing blue sky
Thankam — Gold, golden one, precious

Where this comes from

Suma'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.