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Reshma
Pronounced RESH-muh /ΛrΙΚ.mΙΛ/Medium
Meaning: Reshma comes from reshm, the Persian and Urdu word for silk, giving the name the sense of 'silken' or 'soft as silk.' It is a familiar girl's name across India, Pakistan and the wider South Asian world, valued for its gentle imagery.Medium
Popularity in the U.S. Β· SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880βpresent). Pink marker = peak year.
SSA data updated May 2026. How we source & verify this data.
History & Origin
Reshma is a South Asian girl's name drawn from reshm, the Persian and Urdu word for silk, and understood as 'silken' or 'soft as silk.' Long common across India and Pakistan, it traveled to the United States with South Asian families and appears on American birth records from the early nineteen-seventies. Its gentle, tactile meaning has kept it in steady if modest use.
In the United States it stayed rare, given to only a couple dozen girls a year even at its high around the year two-thousand, so a girl named Reshma then would be in her twenties today. It reads as a heritage name carried by South Asian families rather than a mainstream trend.
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Frequently Asked
What does the name Reshma mean?
It means 'silken' or 'made of silk,' from the Persian and Urdu word reshm.
How do you pronounce Reshma?
It's said RESH-muh /ΛrΙΚ.mΙΛ/, two syllables with the stress on the first.
Is Reshma a boy or girl name?
Reshma is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Reshma?
It has always been rare in the United States, given to only a couple dozen girls a year at its peak around the year two-thousand.