Entry № 709 · Sanskrit origin

Annapoorna Annapoorna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ahn-nah-POOR-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Full of food (Hindu goddess + Annapoorna Devi - Ravi Shankar's wife)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "full of food (hindu goddess + annapoorna devi - ravi shankar's wife)".

Annapoorna is from the Sanskrit anna (अन्न — food) + pūrṇā (पूर्णा — full, complete). Goddess Annapoorna is the Hindu goddess of food and nourishment, a form of Parvati — central to the Annapoorna Stotra composed by Adi Shankaracharya (c. 8th century CE). Annapoorna Devi (Roshanara Khan, 1927-2018) was an Indian Hindustani classical surbahar and sitar player — daughter and disciple of Ustad Allauddin Khan (1862-1972) of the Maihar gharana, sister of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan (sarod legend). Married Pandit Ravi Shankar (1920-2012) in 1941. Her decision to retire from public performance in the 1950s is widely discussed in Hindustani classical music history. Padma Bhushan (1977), Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (2004).

and Hindustani classical music.

Full of food (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

अन्नपूर्णा
Transliteration
Annapūrṇā
Pronunciation
/ ˌɑːn.nəˈpʊər.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Annapoorna stands.

Annapoorna 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.

Annapoornas before her.

Real people
Annapoorna Devi
Hindustani classical + Padma Bhushan 1977.
1927 – 2018
In fiction
Annapoorna (goddess)
Hindu goddess of food.

Names connected to Annapoorna.

The number behind Annapoorna.

1

The Leader

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