Entry № 54 · Sanskrit origin

Abhijna Abhijna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-BEEJ-nyah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Higher knowledge / Buddhist power"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "higher knowledge / buddhist power".

Abhijna is from the Sanskrit Abhijñā.

Higher knowledge / Buddhist power — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

अभिज्ञा
Transliteration
Abhijñā
Pronunciation
/ əˈbiːdʒ.njə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Abhijna stands.

Abhijna 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.

Abhijnas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Buddhist Six Higher Knowledges / Digha Nikaya
Sanskrit higher-knowledge direct-perception + abhi- toward + jñā to know + Ṣaḍ-Abhijñā six-higher-knowledges arhats + Ṛddhi-vidhi + Divya-śrotra + Ceto-paryāya-jñāna + Pūrva-nivāsa + Divya-cakṣu + Āsava-kṣaya + Pali Canon Digha Nikaya
Buddhist

Names connected to Abhijna.

The number behind Abhijna.

9

The Giver

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