Entry № 3530 · Sanskrit origin

Ganga Ganga — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GUN-gah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Goddess of the Ganges"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "goddess of the ganges".

Ganga is from the Sanskrit Gaṅgā. Princess Ganga — Hindu heritage naming.

Goddess Ganga (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

गङ्गा
Transliteration
Gaṅgā
Pronunciation
/ ˈɡʌŋ.ɡə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ganga stands.

Ganga 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.

Gangas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Goddess Ganga
Hindu sacred river goddess.

Names connected to Ganga.

The number behind Ganga.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ganga reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.