Entry № 375 · Sanskrit origin

Alakananda Alakananda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-lah-kah-NAHN-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Ganga tributary / Alakas joy"
Syllables
5
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "ganga tributary / alakas joy".

Alakananda is from the Sanskrit Alakanandā.

Ganga tributary / Alakas joy — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

अलकनन्दा
Transliteration
Alakanandā
Pronunciation
/ ˌɑː.lə.kɑːˈnɑːn.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Alakananda stands.

Alakananda 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.

Alakanandas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Alakananda Ganga tributary Satopanth glacier Uttarakhand 195 km / Bhagirathi Devaprayag Ganga / Chamoli Rudraprayag / Pancha-Prayaga Vishnuprayag Nandaprayag Karnaprayag Rudraprayag Devaprayag / Badarinatha Char-Dham / Kuberas Alaka heavenly
Sanskrit tributary-of-Ganga joy-of-Alaka + alaka lock-of-hair + ānandā joy + Alakanandā source-tributary Ganga Satopanth glacier Uttarakhand Bhāgirathī Devaprayag Ganga + 195 km Chamoli + Rudraprayag + Pancha-Prayāga five-confluences Vishnuprayag + Nandaprayag + Karnaprayag + Rudraprayag + Devaprayag + Badarīnātha Char-Dhām + Kuberas-heavenly-city Alaka + Vishnupada-Alakananda
Alakananda Ganga

Names connected to Alakananda.

The number behind Alakananda.

6

The Nurturer

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