Entry № 1718 · Sanskrit origin

Caitanya Caitanya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ chigh-TAHN-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Consciousness / Krishna-Chaitanya"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "consciousness / krishna-chaitanya".

Caitanya is from the Sanskrit Caitanyā.

Consciousness / Krishna-Chaitanya — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Caitanya
Transliteration
Caitanyā
Pronunciation
/ ˌtʃaɪˈtɑːn.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Caitanya stands.

Caitanya 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.

Caitanyas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Caitanya.

The number behind Caitanya.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Caitanya reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.