Entry № 4797 · Sanskrit origin

Jamuna Jamuna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JAH-moo-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Yamuna river (Krishna)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "yamuna river (krishna)".

Jamuna is from the Sanskrit Jamunā.

Yamuna river (Krishna) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

जमुना
Transliteration
Jamunā
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒɑː.muː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jamuna stands.

Jamuna 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.

Jamunas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Yamuna Krishna Vrindavan / Triveni Sangam Prayagraj
Sanskrit sacred river + Yamuna second-most-sacred after Ganges + twin-sister of Yama + Krishnas Vrindavan-Mathura + Rasa-Lila on Yamuna + Triveni-Sangam Prayagraj Ganges + Saraswati + Kumbh Mela
Hindu river

Names connected to Jamuna.

The number behind Jamuna.

6

The Nurturer

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