Entry № 2234 · Sanskrit origin

Dahana Dahana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DAH-hah-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Sacred fire / burning"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "sacred fire / burning".

Dahana is from the Sanskrit Dahanā.

Sacred fire / burning — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

दहना
Transliteration
Dahanā
Pronunciation
/ ˈdɑː.hə.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dahana stands.

Dahana 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.

Dahanas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Agni-Dahana Vedic ritual / Rigveda 1.1 Agni Sukta / Antim-Sanskara cremation
Sanskrit burning consuming-fire + dah to burn + Agni-Dahana Vedic-ritual + Dahana one of eight-names of Agni + Rigveda Agni Sūkta 1.1 agnim īḷe purohitaṃ yajñasya devam ṛtvijam + Antim-Sanskāra last-of-16-Samskaras
Vedic Agni

Names connected to Dahana.

The number behind Dahana.

2

The Peacemaker

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