Entry № 9074 · Sanskrit origin

Saina Saina — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SIE-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Of the army (Saina Nehwal, first Indian Olympic badminton medal)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (Sanskrit)

A name that means "of the army (saina nehwal, first indian olympic badminton medal)".

Saina is from the Sanskrit sainya (army) — "of the army, warrior." Saina Nehwal (born 1990) — Indian badminton player; in 2012 became the first Indian (of any sport) to win an Olympic medal in badminton, taking bronze at London 2012.

Of the army.

The name in its native script.

सायना
Transliteration
Sainā
Pronunciation
/ ˈsaɪ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Saina stands.

Saina 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.

Sainas before her.

Real people
Saina Nehwal
Indian Olympic badminton player.
born 1990
In fiction
Saina
Saina.
2021

Names connected to Saina.

The number behind Saina.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Saina reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.