Entry № 11291 · Sanskrit origin

Vigna Vigna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VEEG-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Obstacle / Ganesha"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "obstacle / ganesha".

Vigna is from the Sanskrit Vighnā.

Obstacle / Ganesha — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

विघ्ना
Transliteration
Vighnā
Pronunciation
/ ˈviːɡ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Vigna stands.

Vigna 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.

Vignas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Vighnaharta Ganesha / Ashtavinayak
Sanskrit obstacle + Vighnaharta Ganesha remover of obstacles + Vighneshvara Ganesha + Ganesh Chaturthi + Ashtavinayak eight Ganesha temples in Maharashtra
Hindu Ganesha

Names connected to Vigna.

The number behind Vigna.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vigna reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.