Entry № 5320 · Sanskrit origin

Kavana Kavana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kah-VAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Poem / intention"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "poem / intention".

Kavana is from the Sanskrit Kavana.

Poem / intention — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

कवन
Transliteration
Kavana
Pronunciation
/ kəˈvɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kavana stands.

Kavana 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.

Kavanas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Sanskrit Kavya / Hebrew Kavanah prayer intention
Sanskrit poem poetic-composition + kavi poet + Hebrew Kavanah directed-intention in prayer + Sanskrit Kavya + Kalidasa + classical Sanskrit prosody + Hindu bhakti-poetry
Hindu Jewish

Names connected to Kavana.

The number behind Kavana.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kavana reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.