What was the name of Siddhartha Gautama's wife?

Siddhartha Gautama’s wife was Yaśodharā, also commonly spelled Yasodhara or Yashodhara.

In traditional biographies, Yaśodharā was a princess of the Koliya clan who married Prince Siddhartha before he renounced palace life. She is described as the mother of Rāhula, their son. When Siddhartha left during the Great Renunciation, Yaśodharā remained in Kapilavastu and later became a disciple after the Buddha returned and established a monastic community for women.

Accounts differ across Buddhist traditions about her names and biography. The Pali Canon generally refers to her as Bhaddakaccānā rather than Yaśodharā, while other texts use names such as Bimbādevī, Gopī, or Rāhulamātā, meaning “Rāhula’s mother.” Yaśodharā became the best-known name in later Buddhist literature and modern popular retellings.

The wrong options are family or associate names: Ānanda was the Buddha’s attendant and cousin, Rāhula was his son, and Māyā was his birth mother. Thus Yasodhara is the standard answer for a general-history quiz, even though older sources preserve alternate names for the same figure or differing traditions about the Buddha’s household.