Entry № 8367 · Sanskrit origin

Putana Putana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ POO-tah-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Krishna-narrative-Rakshasi"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "krishna-narrative-rakshasi".

Putana is from the Sanskrit Pūtanā.

Krishna-narrative-Rakshasi — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Putana
Transliteration
Pūtanā
Pronunciation
/ ˈpuː.tə.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Putana stands.

Putana 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.

Putanas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Putana.

The number behind Putana.

1

The Leader

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