Entry № 5516 · Sanskrit origin

Kirtana Kirtana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KEER-tah-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Devotional singing"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "devotional singing".

Kirtana is from the Sanskrit Kīrtanā.

Devotional singing — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

कीर्तना
Transliteration
Kīrtanā
Pronunciation
/ ˈkiːr.tə.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kirtana stands.

Kirtana 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.

Kirtanas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Nava-Vidha-Bhakti 9 fold Bhagavata 7.5.23-24 Prahlada / Chaitanya Sankirtana Hare Krishna Maha-Mantra / Meera Surdas Tulsidas Kabir
Sanskrit devotional-singing praise-song + kīrt to praise + Kīrtana Nava-Vidha-Bhakti Śravaṇa + Kīrtana + Smaraṇa + Pāda-sevana + Arcana + Vandana + Dāsya + Sakhya + Ātma-nivedana + Bhagavata Purana 7.5.23-24 Prahlada + Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486-1534 Saṅkīrtana Hare-Krishna Mahā-Mantra + Meera + Surdas + Tulsidas + Kabir
Bhakti Kirtana

Names connected to Kirtana.

The number behind Kirtana.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kirtana reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.