Entry № 2346 · Sanskrit origin

Datta Datta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DAHT-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Dattatreya / given"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "dattatreya / given".

Datta is from the Sanskrit Dattā.

Dattatreya / given — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

दत्ता
Transliteration
Dattā
Pronunciation
/ ˈdɑːt.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Datta stands.

Datta 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.

Dattas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Dattatreya Trimurti Atri-Anasuya son / Sai Baba of Shirdi Datta-avatar
Sanskrit given bestowed + dā to give + Dattātreya Trimurti-combined Brahma-Vishnu-Shiva son of Atri + Anasuya + Datta-Sampradāya Śrī Pāda Śrī Vallabha + Nrsimha Sarasvati + Manik Prabhu + Akkalkot Swami + Sai Baba of Shirdi + Dattātreya Upaniṣad + Avadhūta Gītā + Datta Jayanti Marga-Shirsha-Purnima
Datta Sampradaya

Names connected to Datta.

The number behind Datta.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Datta reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.