Entry № 9015 · Sanskrit origin

Sadhana Sadhana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SAHD-hah-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Spiritual practice (iconic Sadhana Shivdasani Bollywood)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "spiritual practice (iconic sadhana shivdasani bollywood)".

Sadhana is from the Sanskrit sādhanā (साधना — spiritual practice, devotion, dedication). Princess Sadhana — Hindu heritage naming.

and Bollywood golden age.

Spiritual practice (iconic Sadhana Shivdasani Bollywood) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

साधना
Transliteration
Sādhanā
Pronunciation
/ ˈsɑːd.hə.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sadhana stands.

Sadhana 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.

Sadhanas before her.

Real people
Sadhana Shivdasani
Iconic 1960s Bollywood + Sadhana cut fashion + Woh Kaun Thi?
1941 – 2015
In fiction
Sadhana
Sanskrit spiritual practice.

Names connected to Sadhana.

The number behind Sadhana.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sadhana reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.