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
Grammatical form

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

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.