Entry № 10832 · Sanskrit origin

Turiya Turiya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TOOR-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Fourth state / consciousness"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "fourth state / consciousness".

Turiya is from the Sanskrit Turīyā.

Fourth state / consciousness — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

तुरीया
Transliteration
Turīyā
Pronunciation
/ ˈtʊr.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Turiya stands.

Turiya 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.

Turiyas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Turiya 4th state / Jagrat Svapna Sushupti Turiya / Mandukya Upanishad verse 7 / Gaudapada Mandukya-Karika 7th c. 215 verses / Adi Shankara / OM AUM Silence / Turiyatita
Sanskrit fourth-state transcendent-consciousness + turīya fourth + Turīya fourth-state Jāgrat + Svapna + Suṣupti + Māṇḍūkya Upanishad verse-7 nāntaḥ-prajñaṃ na bahiḥ-prajñam na ubhayataḥ-prajñam na prajñāna-ghanaṃ na prajñaṃ nāprajñam + Māṇḍūkya-Kārikā Gauḍapāda ~7th c. 215-verses Advaita-Vedanta + Om A-U-M-Silence + Adi Shankaracharya commentary + Turīyātīta
Turiya Vedanta

Names connected to Turiya.

The number behind Turiya.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Turiya reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.