Entry № 7192 · Sanskrit origin

Nandana Nandana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nahn-DAH-nah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Delightful garden / Indras heaven"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "delightful garden / indras heaven".

Nandana is from the Sanskrit Nandanā.

Delightful garden / Indras heaven — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

नन्दना

Transliteration: Nandanā
Pronunciation: / nənˈdɑː.nə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Nandana stands.

Nandana 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.

Namesakes

Nandanas before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Nandana Vana Indra / Parijata Tree Krishna Satyabhama

Sanskrit delightful garden pleasing + Nandana Vana heavenly-garden of Indra one of five gardens of Devaloka + Rigveda + Mahabharata + Parijata Tree + Krishnas theft for Satyabhama + Nandana Sen daughter of Amartya Sen Nobel 1998

Hindu mythology

Names connected to Nandana.

Numerology

The number behind Nandana.

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nandana reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.