Entry № 2347 · Sanskrit origin

Dattatreya Dattatreya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DAHT-tah-TRAY-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Trimurti-Avatar / Anasuya-Atri-son"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "trimurti-avatar / anasuya-atri-son".

Dattatreya is from the Sanskrit Dattātreyā.

Trimurti-Avatar / Anasuya-Atri-son — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Dattatreya
Transliteration
Dattātreyā
Pronunciation
/ ˌdɑːt.tɑːˈtreː.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dattatreya stands.

Dattatreya 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.

Dattatreyas before her.

Real people

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Names connected to Dattatreya.

The number behind Dattatreya.

7

The Seeker

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