Entry № 6656 · Sanskrit origin

Meena Meena — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MEE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Fish (Bollywood's Tragedy Queen, Meena Kumari)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Hindi)

A name that means "fish (bollywood's tragedy queen, meena kumari)".

Meena (मीना) is the Sanskrit-Hindi word for "fish" (also the lapis-lazuli enamel) — the Pisces zodiac sign. Meena Kumari (1933-1972) — born Mahjabeen Bano — was the Hindi cinema actress called "The Tragedy Queen" of Indian cinema. *Her performance in Pakeezah (1972) — released weeks before her death from cirrhosis at 38 — is among the most iconic in Indian film history. Her Urdu poetry, written under the pen name Naaz, was published posthumously.*

Subject of Vinod Mehta's classic biography Meena Kumari: The Classic Biography (1972).

Fish. The Tragedy Queen of Indian cinema; Pakeezah released weeks before her death at 38.

The name in its native script.

मीना
Transliteration
Mīnā
Pronunciation
/ ˈmiː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Meena stands.

Meena 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.

Meenas before her.

Real people
Meena Kumari
Hindi cinema actress.
1933 – 1972
In fiction
Sahibjaan
Pakeezah.
1972

Names connected to Meena.

The number behind Meena.

2

The Peacemaker

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