Entry № 1100 · Sanskrit origin

Avidya Avidya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-veed-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Ignorance / Vedanta-Avidya"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "ignorance / vedanta-avidya".

Avidya is from the Sanskrit Avidyā.

Ignorance / Vedanta-Avidya — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Avidya
Transliteration
Avidyā
Pronunciation
/ ɑːˈviːd.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Avidya stands.

Avidya 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.

Avidyas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Avidya.

The number behind Avidya.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Avidya reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.