Entry № 5209 · Sanskrit origin

Kanchan Kanchan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAHN-chahn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Gold"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "gold".

Kanchan is from the Sanskrit काञ्चन (Kāñcana — gold, golden). Kanchan is one of the Sanskrit feminine names — central to traditional Hindu heritage.

Gold — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

काञ्चन
Transliteration
Kāñcana
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɑːn.tʃən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kanchan stands.

Kanchan 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.

Kanchans before her.

Real people
Kanchan Choudhary Bhattacharya
First Indian female Director General of Police + pan-Indian women's-empowerment heritage.
1947 – 2015
In fiction
Kanchanjanga / Lakshmi
Kangchenjunga Five Treasures of Snow + third-highest mountain in world ~8,586 m + India-Nepal border + Lakshmi Hindu goddess of wealth + Diwali Festival of Lights + Hiranyagarbha Rigveda 10.121.
Hindu tradition

Names connected to Kanchan.

The number behind Kanchan.

7

The Seeker

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