Varsha
The name means "rain". In Poland it barely registers: only 26 women carry it and no girl has been given it this century, so most Poles will never meet one.
Varsha Pronunciation
What Varsha means
Where Varsha comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Varsha comes from Sanskrit, where varṣā means rain and, more specifically, the monsoon season that ends the dry months in South Asia. The word traces back to the root vṛṣ, "to rain" or "to pour." So the name sits close to weather itself, to the season a large part of the world waits for each year. Rain here is not a small thing. It is the arrival that makes fields grow.
In India the name is common for girls, and it keeps its plain meaning in daily Hindi, where varsha still means rainfall. The Polish reader will meet it rarely. On a Polish class register or an urząd form, Varsha reads as clearly foreign, a short word of two syllables with no local variant to soften it.
The grounding gives no diminutive and no cross-gender pair, and that fits the name well. It stays as it is. What it offers a Polish family is the meaning underneath, deszcz, the same rain that a Sanskrit speaker heard in varṣā long before the word travelled.
How many people are named Varsha
1 in 867071 women in Poland is named Varsha. 26 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #8419 among female names.