Entry № 4779 · Sanskrit origin

Jahanavi Jahanavi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ jah-HAH-nah-vee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Ganga / daughter of Jahnu"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "ganga / daughter of jahnu".

Jahanavi is from the Sanskrit Jāhnavī.

Ganga / daughter of Jahnu — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

जाह्नवी
Transliteration
Jāhnavī
Pronunciation
/ dʒəˈhɑː.nə.vi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jahanavi stands.

Jahanavi 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.

Jahanavis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Jahnavi Ganga Jahnu Rishi / swallowed Ganga Ashram Bhagirathas / released ear Bhagavata 9:15 / Ramayana Bala 42-44 Bhagiratha / Jahnu-Ashram Jahanu-tirtha Bihar Bengal / Bhagirathi-Jahnavi twin / Sapta-Nadi Ganga Yamuna Sarasvati Sindhu Narmada Kaveri Godavari / Adi Shankara Ganga-Ashtakam 8 verses / Ganga-Sahasranama 1000
Sanskrit daughter-of-Jahnu Ganga-epithet + Jahnu sage + Jāhnavī Ganga-epithet Jahnu-Rishi + Jahnu swallowed-Ganga Ashram Bhagīrathas + Ganga ear Jāhnavī Bhagavata Purana Canto 9 Chapter 15 + Ramayana Bala Kanda 42-44 + Jahnu-Ashram Jaha-nu-tirtha Bihar West-Bengal + Bhāgīrathī-Jāhnavī + Jāhnavī Bhāgīrathī Sapta-Nadī Yamuna + Sarasvati + Sindhu + Narmada + Kaveri + Godavari + Ganga-Ashtakam Adi Shankaracharya 8-verses + Ganga-Sahasranama
Jahanavi Ganga

Names connected to Jahanavi.

The number behind Jahanavi.

3

The Communicator

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