Entry № 11029 · Sanskrit origin

Vachana Vachana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VAH-chah-nah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Speech / Vachana literature (Kannada)"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "speech / vachana literature (kannada)".

Vachana is from the Sanskrit Vacana.

Speech / Vachana literature (Kannada) — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

वचन

Transliteration: Vacana
Pronunciation: / ˈvɑː.tʃə.nə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Vachana stands.

Vachana 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.

Namesakes

Vachanas before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Basavanna Akka Mahadevi Allama Prabhu 12th c. Vachana / Lingayat Shaivite

Sanskrit speech utterance saying + vac to speak + Kannada literary-form ~12th c. free-verse-prose-poetry devotional + Basavanna 1131-1167 + Akka Mahadevi + Allama Prabhu Lingayat Shaivite + Basava Purana + Vacana-Sāhitya

Kannada Lingayat

Names connected to Vachana.

Numerology

The number behind Vachana.

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vachana reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.