Entry № 10942 · Sanskrit origin

Upasana Upasana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ oo-PAH-sah-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Devotional meditation"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "devotional meditation".

Upasana is from the Sanskrit Upāsanā.

Devotional meditation — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

उपासना
Transliteration
Upāsanā
Pronunciation
/ uːˈpɑː.sə.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Upasana stands.

Upasana 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.

Upasanas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Upasana Karma Bhakti Jnana Upasana 4 paths / Upasana-Kanda Karma-Kanda Jnana-Kanda / Chandogya 1.1 Udgitha 1.3 Prana 3.19 Aditya / Brihadaranyaka 4.4 Atma / Bhagavad Gita 12:1-8 / Nirguna Saguna
Sanskrit devotional-meditation worship + upa- near + ās to sit + Upāsanā Karma-Bhakti-Jñāna-Upāsanā four-paths + Upāsanā-Kāṇḍa Karma-Kāṇḍa + Jñāna-Kāṇḍa + Chandogya 1.1 Udgītha-Upāsanā + 1.3 Prāṇa-Upāsanā + 3.19 Āditya-Upāsanā + Bṛhadāraṇyaka 4.4 Ātma-Upāsanā + Bhagavad Gita 12:1-8 Vyakta-Avyakta-Upāsanā + Nirguṇa-Upāsanā-Saguṇa-Upāsanā
Vedanta Upasana

Names connected to Upasana.

The number behind Upasana.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Upasana reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.