Entry № 2494 · Sanskrit origin

Dhyaana Dhyaana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DYAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Meditation / contemplation"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "meditation / contemplation".

Dhyaana is from the Sanskrit Dhyānā.

Meditation / contemplation — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

ध्याना
Transliteration
Dhyānā
Pronunciation
/ ˈdjɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dhyaana stands.

Dhyaana 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.

Dhyaanas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Patanjali Ashtanga 7th limb / Bhagavad Gita 6 Dhyana-Yoga / Buddhist Jhana 4+4 / Zen from Dhyana
Sanskrit meditation contemplation + dhyai to meditate + Dhyāna seventh-limb Patanjalis Aṣṭāṅga-Yoga + Dhāraṇā concentration + Samādhi absorption + Bhagavad Gita chapter 6 Dhyāna-Yoga + Buddhist Jhāna Pali 4-Rūpa-Jhānas + 4-Arūpa-Jhānas + Zen Japanese-transliteration of Chinese Chan from Sanskrit Dhyāna
Yoga + Zen

Names connected to Dhyaana.

The number behind Dhyaana.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dhyaana reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.