Shaurya
Shaurya is a boy name of Sanskrit origin, meaning Bravery; valour.
What Shaurya means
Bravery; valour.
Shaurya sits at 7 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Shaurya comes from
Sanskrit names draw on a devotional and literary tradition thousands of years old. Many are epithets of deities or qualities from classical texts, which is why their meanings tend to be abstract virtues rather than objects.
Shaurya is recorded as Sanskrit in origin. Browse other Sanskrit names.
How popular is Shaurya?
You will not find Shaurya in the top 100 boy names at the moment. Plenty of well-known names sit outside the charts; popularity measures how often a name is registered, not how good or how real it is.
The character of Shaurya
We group Shaurya under Brave and courage and battle — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Shaurya
These share Shaurya's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Veer — Brave; a warrior.
- Wyatt — Brave in war.
- Gunnar — Bold warrior.
- Parth — Prince; a great warrior.
- Vikram — Valour; a brave king.
- Sasha — Defender of the people.
- Alexander — Defender of the people.
- Anders — Manly, brave.
- Andreas — Manly, brave.
- Cillian — War, strife; bright-headed.
- Everett — Brave as a wild boar.
- Finn — Fair, white; the legendary hero Fionn.