Entry № 244 · Sanskrit origin

Ahankara Ahankara — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-HAHN-kah-rah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Ego / Sankhya principle"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "ego / sankhya principle".

Ahankara is from the Sanskrit Ahaṃkārā. pan-Sankhya heritage.

Ego / Sankhya principle — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

अहङ्कारा

Transliteration: Ahaṃkārā
Pronunciation: / əˈhɑːn.kɑː.rə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Ahankara stands.

Ahankara 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.

Namesakes

Ahankaras before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Bhagavad Gita 7:4 / Sankhya Karika 25 Tattvas

Sanskrit ego I-maker sense-of-self + ahaṃ I + kāra maker + Ahaṃkāra third of 25 Tattvas Sankhya + Puruṣa + Prakṛti + Mahat + Bhagavad Gita 7:4 bhūmir āpo nalo vāyuḥ eight-fold nature + Sāṃkhya Kārikā by Ishvarakrishna ~4th c.

Sankhya-Yoga

Names connected to Ahankara.

Numerology

The number behind Ahankara.

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ahankara reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.