Entry № 2222 · Avestan origin

Daena Daena — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ dah-EH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Avestan
Meaning
"Conscience-soul (Zoroastrian)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Avestan)

A name that means "conscience-soul (zoroastrian)".

Daena (Avestan daēnā) is one of the deepest concepts in Zoroastrianism — the divine "conscience-soul," the inner spiritual self, the personification of one's own moral choices that meets the deceased at the Chinvat Bridge. In Zoroastrian eschatology, she appears to the dead as a beautiful young woman to the righteous, an ugly hag to the wicked — being one's own deeds made manifest.

Featured in the Avesta and the Hadhokht Nask.

Conscience-soul (Zoroastrian) — a Avestan name.

The name in its native script.

𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬁
Transliteration
Daēnā
Pronunciation
/ dɑːˈɛ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Daena stands.

Daena 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.

Daenas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Daena
Hadhokht Nask.

Names connected to Daena.

The number behind Daena.

7

The Seeker

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