Entry № 7995 · Sanskrit origin

Parjanya Parjanya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ pahr-JAHN-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Vedic rain-god"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "vedic rain-god".

Parjanya is from the Sanskrit Parjanyā.

Vedic rain-god — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

पर्जन्या
Transliteration
Parjanyā
Pronunciation
/ pərˈdʒɑːn.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Parjanya stands.

Parjanya 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.

Parjanyas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Rigveda 5.83 Parjanya Sukta / Bhagavad Gita 3:14
Sanskrit rain-cloud rain-god + Rigveda three hymns 5.83 + 7.101 + 7.102 + Indra thunder + Varuna water + Vedic agricultural-fertility + Parjanya Sukta + Bhagavad Gita 3:14 annad bhavanti bhutani parjanyad anna-sambhavaḥ
Vedic rain god

Names connected to Parjanya.

The number behind Parjanya.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Parjanya reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.