Entry № 2252 · Sanskrit origin

Dakshina Dakshina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ dahk-SHEE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Ritual offering / south (guru-dakshina tradition)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "ritual offering / south (guru-dakshina tradition)".

Dakshina is from the Sanskrit दक्षिणा (Dakṣiṇā — south, ritual offering to teacher or priest). Dakshina is one of the Sanskrit feminine names — central to traditional Hindu Vedic heritage.

Ritual offering (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

दक्षिणा
Transliteration
Dakṣiṇā
Pronunciation
/ dəkˈʃiː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dakshina stands.

Dakshina 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.

Dakshinas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Guru-Dakshina
Ancient Indian tradition + Mahabharata Ekalavya story + Rigveda 10.107 Dakshina Sukta + Dakshinamurti form of Shiva.
Mahabharata

Names connected to Dakshina.

The number behind Dakshina.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dakshina reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.