Entry № 1246 · Sanskrit origin

Banadurga Banadurga — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BAH-nah-DOOR-gah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Forest-Durga"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "forest-durga".

Banadurga is from the Sanskrit Vanadurgā.

Forest-Durga — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

वनदुर्गा
Transliteration
Vanadurgā
Pronunciation
/ ˈbɑː.nɑːˈdʊr.ɡə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Banadurga stands.

Banadurga 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.

Banadurgas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Vanadurga Devi Bhagavata / Vanadurga-Stotram / Odisha Bengal Jharkhand tribal
Sanskrit forest-Durga wilderness-Devi + vana forest + durgā fortress-invincible-Devi + Devi Bhagavata Purana + Markandeya Purana Devi Mahatmya + Vanadurgā-Stotram + Odisha + Bengal + Jharkhand tribal-heritage
Hindu Shakta

Names connected to Banadurga.

The number behind Banadurga.

6

The Nurturer

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