Kokila
Kokila means Cuckoo bird, sweet-voiced.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| 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 — Meanings families give: Singing of birds, cuckoo sound; 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 — Meanings families give: Friendship, benevolence; Friendship, friendly, benevolent
- Yashaswini — Famous, glorious, successful woman
- Mamatha — Love, affection, maternal feeling
- Malavika — N. of a woman (See next)
- Roopashree — Endowed with beauty, graceful one
- Prajwala — Blazing, glowing brightly
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.