Entry № 2352 · Sanskrit origin

Daya Daya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DAH-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Compassion"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "compassion".

Daya is from the Sanskrit Dayā.

Compassion — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

दया
Transliteration
Dayā
Pronunciation
/ ˈdɑː.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Daya stands.

Daya 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.

Dayas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Yoga Sutras Yamas / Dayananda Saraswati
Sanskrit compassion + Hindu Buddhist Jain ethical concept + Patanjali Yoga Sutras yamas + Buddhist karuṇā + Avalokiteshvara + Tara + Dayananda Saraswati Arya Samaj founder
Indic spirituality

Names connected to Daya.

The number behind Daya.

4

The Builder

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