Entry № 710 · Sanskrit origin

Annapurna Annapurna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ahn-nah-POOR-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Filled with food (Hindu goddess of nourishment)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "filled with food (hindu goddess of nourishment)".

Annapurna (अन्नपूर्णा) combines the Sanskrit anna (food) and purna (full) — "she who is full of food." The Hindu goddess of nourishment — a manifestation of Parvati who, when Shiva claimed the world was illusion, withdrew all food from creation until he begged her to return. Worshipped especially at the Annapurna Temple in Varanasi. The Annapurna massif in Nepal is named after her.

Filled with food. Shiva had to beg her to return food to creation.

The name in its native script.

अन्नपूर्णा
Transliteration
Annapūrṇā
Pronunciation
/ ˌæn.əˈpʊr.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Annapurna stands.

Annapurna 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.

Annapurnas before her.

Real people
Annapurna Devi
Indian surbahar player.
1927 – 2018
In fiction
Annapurna
Hindu goddess.

Names connected to Annapurna.

The number behind Annapurna.

1

The Leader

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