Entry № 9232 · Sanskrit origin

Saranyu Saranyu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-RAH-nyoo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Vedic goddess of the swift clouds"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "vedic goddess of the swift clouds".

Saranyu (सरण्यू) is from the Sanskrit root sṛ ("to flow, run"). Her cosmic chase by the sun is one of the myths of the Rigveda.

Featured in Rigveda 10.17.

Vedic swift-cloud goddess.

The name in its native script.

सरण्यू
Transliteration
Saraṇyū
Pronunciation
/ səˈrɑː.njuː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Saranyu stands.

Saranyu 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.

Saranyus before her.

Real people
Saranyu
Vedic goddess.
In fiction
Saranyu
Rigveda 10.17.

Names connected to Saranyu.

The number behind Saranyu.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Saranyu reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.