Entry № 11671 · Sanskrit origin

Yamuna Yamuna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YAH-moo-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"The Yamuna river goddess"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "the yamuna river goddess".

Yamuna (यमुना) is the Sanskrit name of the sacred Yamuna River — the second holiest river in Hinduism after the Ganges. The river is personified as the goddess Yamuna, daughter of the sun god Surya and twin sister of Yama, the god of death.

Yamuna is widely used across India.

The Yamuna river goddess. Surya's daughter.

The name in its native script.

यमुना
Transliteration
Yamunā
Pronunciation
/ ˈjɑː.muː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yamuna stands.

Yamuna 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.

Yamunas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Yamuna
Sacred river goddess.
Hindu scripture

Names connected to Yamuna.

The number behind Yamuna.

3

The Communicator

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