Girl, occasionally given to boys · Sanskrit · Hindu
Sheetal
शीतलSay it SHEE-tul
Sheetal meaning
Sheetal (शीतल) is a Hindu girl's name of Sanskrit origin.
Cold, cool, cooling; calm, gentle, free from passion
Sheetal (शीतल) is the Sanskrit and Hindi word śītala, from śīta, "cold". Monier-Williams gives it as cold, cool or cooling, and figuratively as calm, gentle and free from passion, not stirring painful feelings. As a noun the old lexicons list the moon, the wind, sandalwood and the lotus, all things Indian poetry calls cooling. The goddess Śītalā, long worshipped in North India and Bengal as a protector against smallpox, carries the same word. Name lists give Sheetal as "cool" or "calm", the dictionary meaning. It is mostly a girls' name; Shital is the usual spelling in Maharashtra and Gujarat, where it is occasionally given to boys.
Source: Monier-Williams, Sanskrit–English Dictionary (1899), p. 1078 · entry śītala · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026
References: Monier-Williams, śītala, p. 1078
Spellings
Sheetal · Shital · Sheethal