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
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Grammatical form
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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

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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.