Entry № 11032 · Sanskrit origin

Vadana Vadana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VAH-dah-nah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Face / moon-face"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "face / moon-face".

Vadana is from the Sanskrit Vadanā.

Face / moon-face — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

वदना

Transliteration: Vadanā
Pronunciation: / ˈvɑː.də.nə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Vadana stands.

Vadana 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

Vadanas before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Candra-Vadana moon-faced / Kalidasa / Padma-Vadana Shashi-Vadana Devi

Sanskrit face countenance mouth + vad to speak + Candra-Vadanā moon-faced Sanskrit-poetic-heroine + Kalidasa + Ekaikanaya-Vadanā + Padma-Vadanā lotus-faced + Śaśi-Vadanā moon-faced Devi + Bharatas Nāṭyaśāstra + Devi Smita-Vadanā smiling-faced

Hindu aesthetics

Names connected to Vadana.

Numerology

The number behind Vadana.

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vadana reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.