Entry № 4308 · Sanskrit origin

Hiranya Hiranya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ hee-RAHN-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Gold (Hiranyagarbha cosmic golden egg)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "gold (hiranyagarbha cosmic golden egg)".

Hiranya is from the Sanskrit हिरण्य (Hiraṇya — gold, precious, golden) — from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰelh₃-. Hiranya is one of the Sanskrit feminine + unisex names — central to traditional Hindu Vedic heritage. Sanskrit feminine name reflecting Hindu cosmogonic heritage.

Gold (Hiranyagarbha cosmic golden egg) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

हिरण्य
Transliteration
Hiraṇya
Pronunciation
/ hiːˈrɑːn.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Hiranya stands.

Hiranya 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.

Hiranyas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Hiranyagarbha
Golden Womb / Golden Egg + Vedic cosmogonic concept + Rigveda 10.121 Hiranyagarbha Sukta + Hymn of the Golden Embryo.
Rigveda

Names connected to Hiranya.

The number behind Hiranya.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Hiranya reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.