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Sloka

Girl · SHLOH-kuh · Sanskrit

Sloka is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “verse, hymn”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).

What does Sloka mean?

Sanskrit: Sanskrit shloka

“verse, hymn”

The shloka is the classic verse form of the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics.

Say it
SHLOH-kuh

Is Sloka a girl's or a boy's name?

Sloka is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Sloka in the US?

Rank in 2025
#11,928among girls
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 230,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 52% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Sloka, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 25 girls. It first appears in the records in 2009.

Half of all the girls named Sloka in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

2009Busiest: 25 in 20132025
Sloka in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20257#11,928
20249#10,266
20236#13,456
202211#9,050
202111#8,973
202013#7,964
201914#7,712
201819#6,244
201715#7,438
201623#5,620
201515#7,610
201418#6,711
201325#5,315
201220#6,338
201113#8,610
201016#7,510
200912#9,375

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