Entry № 8273 · Sanskrit origin

Pranava Pranava — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PRAH-nah-vah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Sacred Om / primordial"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "sacred om / primordial".

Pranava is from the Sanskrit Praṇavā.

Sacred Om / primordial — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Pranava
Transliteration
Praṇavā
Pronunciation
/ ˈprɑː.nə.və /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pranava stands.

Pranava 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.

Pranavas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Pranava.

The number behind Pranava.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pranava reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.