Entry № 611 · Sanskrit origin

Ananta Ananta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-NAHN-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Infinite / eternal"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "infinite / eternal".

Ananta is from the Sanskrit Anantā.

Infinite / eternal — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

अनन्ता
Transliteration
Anantā
Pronunciation
/ əˈnɑːn.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ananta stands.

Ananta does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Anantas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ananta Shesha-Naga 1000 hoods Vishnu Kshira-Sagara / Ananta-Shayana reclining / Ananta-Padmanabha Trivandrum Kerala Padmanabhaswamy / Ananta-Chaturdashi Bhadrapada-Shukla-Chaturdashi 14 days Ganesh Chaturthi / Balarama avatar / Vishnu Sahasranama 659
Sanskrit infinite eternal endless + an- not + anta end + Ananta Śeṣa-Nāga thousand-hoods Vishnu Kṣīra-Sāgara + Ananta-Śayana + Ananta-Padmanābha Trivandrum Kerala Padmanabhaswamy + Ananta-Chaturdashi Bhadrapada-Shukla-Chaturdashi 14-day Ganesh-Chaturthi + Ananta-Vasudeva + Balarama-avatar Ananta-Śeṣa + Vishnu Sahasranama name-659
Ananta Shesha

Names connected to Ananta.

The number behind Ananta.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ananta reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.