Entry № 8350 · Sanskrit origin

Punya Punya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ POON-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Merit / virtue"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "merit / virtue".

Punya is from the Sanskrit Puṇyā.

Merit / virtue — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

पुण्या
Transliteration
Puṇyā
Pronunciation
/ ˈpuːn.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Punya stands.

Punya 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.

Punyas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Punya virtue merit / Bhagavad Gita 9:20 18:71 / Punya-Tirtha Punya-Kala Punya-Sthana
Sanskrit virtue merit auspiciousness + puṇya sacred + Puṇya spiritual-merit Pāpa sin + Puṇya-Karma + Bhagavad Gita 9:20 trai-vidyā māṃ soma-pāḥ pūta-pāpā yajñair iṣṭvā svar-gatiṃ prārthayante + 18:71 śraddhāvān anasūyaś ca śṛṇuyād api yo naraḥ + Puṇya-Tīrtha + Puṇya-Kāla + Puṇya-Sthāna
Hindu Punya

Names connected to Punya.

The number behind Punya.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Punya reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.