Entry № 2495 · Sanskrit origin

Dhyana Dhyana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ DYAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Meditation (Ashtanga Yoga)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "meditation (ashtanga yoga)".

Dhyana is from the Sanskrit Dhyānā.

Meditation (Ashtanga Yoga) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

ध्याना
Transliteration
Dhyānā
Pronunciation
/ ˈdjɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Dhyana stands.

Dhyana 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.

Dhyanas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Patanjali Ashtanga Yoga / Chan Zen Thiền Seon
Sanskrit meditation contemplation + Dhyāna seventh limb of Aṣṭāṅga Yoga + Buddhist Jhāna Pali + etymology of Chan Chinese + Zen Japanese + Thiền Vietnamese + Seon Korean
Hindu + Zen Buddhism

Names connected to Dhyana.

The number behind Dhyana.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Dhyana reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.