Entry № 6006 · Sanskrit origin

Lochana Lochana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LOH-chah-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Eye"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "eye".

Lochana is from the Sanskrit Locanā.

Eye — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

लोचना
Transliteration
Locanā
Pronunciation
/ ˈloʊ.tʃə.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lochana stands.

Lochana 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.

Lochanas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Trilocana Shiva / Abhinavagupta Locana Dhvanyaloka
Sanskrit eye that-which-illuminates + Trilocana three-eyed Shiva + Abhinavaguptas Locana commentary on Ānandavardhanas Dhvanyāloka + Buddhist Tantric Locana deity
Hindu Buddhist

Names connected to Lochana.

The number behind Lochana.

9

The Giver

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