Entry № 1956 · Sanskrit origin

Chetana Chetana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHEH-tah-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Consciousness"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "consciousness".

Chetana is from the Sanskrit Cetanā.

Consciousness — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

चेतना
Transliteration
Cetanā
Pronunciation
/ ˈtʃɛ.tə.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Chetana stands.

Chetana 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.

Chetanas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Buddhist Abhidharma cetanā / Bhagavad Gita 10:22
Sanskrit consciousness sentience awareness + Buddhist Abhidharma cetanā + Jain philosophy soul-attribute + Sankhya + Bhagavad Gita 10:22 chetanā-dhītiḥ
Hindu Buddhist Jain

Names connected to Chetana.

The number behind Chetana.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Chetana reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.