Entry № 1714 · Indonesian origin

Cahaya Cahaya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ chah-HAH-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Indonesian
Meaning
"Light, radiance"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "light, radiance".

Cahaya means light and radiance — a bright, guiding glow. It carries warmth, hope and clarity.

Light, radiance — a Indonesian name.

The name in its native script.

Cahaya
Transliteration
Cahaya
Pronunciation
/ tʃaˈha.ja /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Cahaya stands.

Cahaya 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.

Cahayas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Cahaya.

The number behind Cahaya.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Cahaya reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.