Entry № 5310 · Sanskrit origin

Katyayani Katyayani — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAHT-yah-yah-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Goddess Durga sixth Navadurga"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "goddess durga sixth navadurga".

Katyayani is from the Sanskrit Kātyāyanī.

Goddess Durga sixth Navadurga — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

कात्यायनी
Transliteration
Kātyāyanī
Pronunciation
/ kɑːtˈjɑː.jə.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Katyayani stands.

Katyayani 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.

Katyayanis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Navadurga Katyayani sixth form / Katyayani Vrata
Sanskrit daughter of Sage Katyayana + sixth of Navadurga nine-forms + Devi Mahatmya Markandeya Purana ~5th-6th c. + Kātyāyana Śrautasūtra + Katyayani Vrata unmarried women for good husband + Kātyāyanī Tantra
Hindu Devi

Names connected to Katyayani.

The number behind Katyayani.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Katyayani reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.