Entry № 10378 · Sanskrit origin

Tarpana Tarpana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TAHR-pah-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Vedic-offering / ancestor-libation"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "vedic-offering / ancestor-libation".

Tarpana is from the Sanskrit Tarpaṇā.

Vedic-offering / ancestor-libation — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Tarpana
Transliteration
Tarpaṇā
Pronunciation
/ ˈtɑːr.pə.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tarpana stands.

Tarpana 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.

Tarpanas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Tarpana.

The number behind Tarpana.

8

The Visionary

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