Entry № 10330 · Sanskrit origin

Tantra Tantra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TAHN-trah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Sacred-treatise / weaving"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "sacred-treatise / weaving".

Tantra is from the Sanskrit Tantrā.

Sacred-treatise / weaving — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Tantra
Transliteration
Tantrā
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɑːn.trə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tantra stands.

Tantra 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.

Tantras before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Tantra.

The number behind Tantra.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tantra reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.