Entry № 4025 · Sanskrit origin

Hamsa Hamsa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HAHM-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Swan (Brahma + Saraswati)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "swan (brahma + saraswati)".

Hamsa is from the Sanskrit Haṃsa.

Swan (Brahma + Saraswati) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

हंस
Transliteration
Haṃsa
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɑːm.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hamsa stands.

Hamsa 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.

Hamsas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Paramahamsa / Brahma + Saraswati
Hindu swan + Vahana of Brahma + Saraswati + Paramahamsa Supreme Swan + Vivekananda + Ramakrishna + Soham mantra + neera-ksheera-viveka
Hindu Vedanta

Names connected to Hamsa.

The number behind Hamsa.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hamsa reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.