Entry № 11626 · Sanskrit origin

Yaana Yaana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Vehicle / journey (Buddhist Yana)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "vehicle / journey (buddhist yana)".

Yaana is from the Sanskrit Yānā.

Vehicle / journey (Buddhist Yana) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

याना
Transliteration
Yānā
Pronunciation
/ ˈjɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yaana stands.

Yaana 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.

Yaanas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Buddhist three Yanas Hinayana Mahayana Vajrayana / Bhagavad Gita 8:24-25
Sanskrit vehicle journey path + yā to go + Yāna vehicle-of-liberation Buddhism + Hīnayāna + Mahāyāna + Vajrayāna three-vehicles + Bhagavad Gita 8:24-25 Śukla-Kṛṣṇa Yāna bright + dark paths
Buddhist path

Names connected to Yaana.

The number behind Yaana.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yaana reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.