Entry № 5309 · Sanskrit origin

Katyayana Katyayana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KAHT-yah-YAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Sanskrit-grammarian / Rishi"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "sanskrit-grammarian / rishi".

Katyayana is from the Sanskrit Kātyāyanā.

Sanskrit-grammarian / Rishi — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

कात्यायना
Transliteration
Kātyāyanā
Pronunciation
/ ˌkɑːt.jɑːˈjɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Katyayana stands.

Katyayana 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.

Katyayanas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Katyayani 6th Nava-Durga Shailaputri Brahmacharini Chandraghanta Kushmanda Skandamata Katyayani Kalaratri Mahagauri Siddhidatri / Sage Katyayana fire Trimurti Mahishasura Devi-Mahatmya 2-3 / Katyayana grammarian 3rd BCE Varttikas Panini Ashtadhyayi 4283 / Muni-Traya Panini Katyayana Patanjali / Shrauta-Sutra Grihya-Sutra / Katyayani-Vrata Marga-Shirsha Bhagavata 10:22
Sanskrit of-Katyayana Katyayana-lineage + Katyāyana + Kātyāyanī Nava-Durga Śailaputrī + Brahmacāriṇī + Chandraghaṇṭā + Kūṣmāṇḍā + Skandamātā + Kātyāyanī + Kālarātri + Mahāgaurī + Siddhidātrī + Kātyāyanī Katyāyana Trimurti Mahishasura Devi-Mahatmya 2-3 + Kātyāyana Sanskrit-grammarian ~3rd c. BCE Vārttikas Pāṇinis Aṣṭādhyāyī 4283-Vārttikas + Kātyāyana Muni-Traya Pāṇini + Kātyāyana + Patañjali + Kātyāyana-Śrauta-Sūtra + Kātyāyana-Gṛhya-Sūtra + Kātyāyanī-Vrata Marga-Shīrṣa-Kārtika Bhagavata Purana Canto 10 Chapter 22
Katyayana Katyayani

Names connected to Katyayana.

The number behind Katyayana.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Katyayana reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.