Entry № 4054 · Sanskrit origin

Hansa Hansa — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ HAHN-sah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Swan / soul"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "swan / soul".

Hansa is from the Sanskrit Haṃsā.

Swan / soul — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

हंसा
Transliteration
Haṃsā
Pronunciation
/ ˈhɑːn.sə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hansa stands.

Hansa 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.

Hansas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Brahma-Saraswati Hansa vahana / Hamsa Upanishad / Paramahamsa
Sanskrit swan divine-bird soul-Ātman + Brahma vahana + Sarasvati vahana + Haṃsa-Avatāra Vishnus swan-avatar teaching Brahma + jiva-soul discriminating-milk-from-water + Haṃsa Upanishad + Haṃsa Gita + Paramahaṃsa highest-swan enlightened-yogi
Hindu Vedanta

Names connected to Hansa.

The number behind Hansa.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hansa reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.