Entry № 10720 · Sanskrit origin

Triguna Triguna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TREE-goo-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Three qualities / cosmic gunas"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "three qualities / cosmic gunas".

Triguna is from the Sanskrit Triguṇā. CE 72-verses pan-Sāṃkhya heritage.

CE 72-verses pan-Sāṃkhya heritage

The name in its native script.

त्रिगुणा
Transliteration
Triguṇā
Pronunciation
/ ˈtriː.ɡuː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Triguna stands.

Triguna 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.

Trigunas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Tri-Guna Sattva Rajas Tamas Samkhya-Yoga / Bhagavad Gita Chapter 14 Guna-Traya-Vibhaga-Yoga 27 verses / 14:5 sattvam rajas tama iti gunah / 17:2-22 3-fold classification / Kapila Ishvara Krishna Samkhya-Karika 4th c. 72 verses
Sanskrit three-quality three-gunas embodiment + tri three + guṇa quality + Tri-Guṇa three-cosmic-qualities Sattva + Rajas + Tamas Sāṃkhya-Yoga + Bhagavad Gita Chapter 14 Guna-Traya-Vibhāga-Yoga 27-verses + 14:5 sattvaṃ rajas tama iti guṇāḥ prakṛti-sambhavāḥ + 17:2-22 three-fold-classification + Kapilas Sāṃkhya-Kārikā Īśvara Kṛṣṇa ~4th c. 72-verses
Samkhya Triguna

Names connected to Triguna.

The number behind Triguna.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Triguna reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.