Entry № 5374 · Sanskrit origin

Kencana Kencana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ken-CHAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Gold (Malay-Indonesian + Majapahit royal name)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Malay)

A name that means "gold (malay-indonesian + majapahit royal name)".

Kencana is from the Sanskrit kāñcana (काञ्चन — gold) — adopted in Malay-Indonesian feminine naming. Kencana is one of the Malay-Indonesian feminine royal-aesthetic names — central to traditional Nusantara naming heritage. Princess Kencanawungu (Kencana Wungu) was the queen regnant of the Majapahit Empire (reigning c. subject of Indonesian wayang topeng dance-drama. Indonesian royal feminine name.

Gold (Malay-Indonesian + Majapahit royal name) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Kencana
Transliteration
Kencana
Pronunciation
/ kɛnˈtʃɑː.nə /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Kencana stands.

Kencana 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.

Kencanas before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Princess Kencanawungu
Majapahit Empire queen regnant.

Names connected to Kencana.

The number behind Kencana.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kencana reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.