Entry № 1462 · Sanskrit origin

Bhuvana Bhuvana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ BOO-vah-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"World, universe"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "world, universe".

Bhuvana (भुवना) is the Sanskrit word for "world" or "earth" — also an epithet of the goddess Bhuvaneshwari, "queen of the universe." Widely used in South India.

Bhuvana Chandra is the Telugu lyricist.

World, universe. The Sanskrit Bhuvaneshwari.

The name in its native script.

भुवना
Transliteration
Bhuvanā
Pronunciation
/ ˈbuː.və.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bhuvana stands.

Bhuvana 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.

Bhuvanas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Bhuvana
Common in South Indian films.

Names connected to Bhuvana.

The number behind Bhuvana.

6

The Nurturer

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