Entry № 363 · Sanskrit origin

Akshaya Akshaya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AHK-shah-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Imperishable / Akshaya Patra"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "imperishable / akshaya patra".

Akshaya is from the Sanskrit Akṣayā.

Imperishable / Akshaya Patra — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

अक्षया
Transliteration
Akṣayā
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑːk.ʃə.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Akshaya stands.

Akshaya 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.

Akshayas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Akshaya Patra Draupadi Mahabharata / Akshaya Tritiya
Sanskrit imperishable inexhaustible + a- not + kṣi to perish + Akṣaya-Pātra inexhaustible-vessel from Surya to Draupadi Mahabharata Vana Parva + Akṣaya Tṛtīyā Vaishakha-Shukla-Tritiya beginning-of-Treta-Yuga + Akṣaya-Vaṭa immortal-banyan-tree Prayagraj
Mahabharata

Names connected to Akshaya.

The number behind Akshaya.

3

The Communicator

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