Kusuma
Origin
Sanskrit
Syllables
3
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
flower (Sanskrit kusuma); a poetic, noble term in Indonesian naming, used for boys
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890srare in US records2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Kusuma has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
The Kusuma deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Kusuma truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Kusuma fits with your family’s names and surname.
Where Kusuma travels
Sinhala and Sri Lankan · flower, blossom (Sanskrit); a grandmother-era staple of Sinhala villages and school registers alike
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