Entry № 9798 · Sanskrit origin

Skanda Skanda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SKAHN-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Kartikeya / Shivas-son"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "kartikeya / shivas-son".

Skanda is from the Sanskrit Skandā.

Kartikeya / Shivas-son — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Skanda
Transliteration
Skandā
Pronunciation
/ ˈskɑːn.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Skanda stands.

Skanda 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.

Skandas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Skanda.

The number behind Skanda.

5

The Seeker

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