Entry № 10312 · Sanskrit origin

Tanaya Tanaya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TAH-nah-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Daughter / offspring"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "daughter / offspring".

Tanaya is from the Sanskrit Tanayā.

Daughter / offspring — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

तनया
Transliteration
Tanayā
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɑː.nə.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tanaya stands.

Tanaya 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.

Tanayas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kanya-Dana / Nanda-Tanaya Yashoda / Janaka-Tanaya Sita
Sanskrit daughter offspring + tan to extend + Tanayā / Putrī daughter Manusmriti + Vedic Kanyā-Dāna daughter-gifting-marriage-ritual + Nanda-Tanayā Yashoda + Girija Tanayā of Himavat + Parvati + Janaka-Tanayā Sita
Hindu family

Names connected to Tanaya.

The number behind Tanaya.

8

The Visionary

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