Entry № 11639 · Sanskrit origin

Yagna Yagna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YAHG-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Sacrifice / sacred ritual"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "sacrifice / sacred ritual".

Yagna is from the Sanskrit Yajñā.

Sacrifice / sacred ritual — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

यज्ञा
Transliteration
Yajñā
Pronunciation
/ ˈjɑːɡ.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yagna stands.

Yagna 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.

Yagnas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Bhagavad Gita 4:24 / Ashvamedha
Sanskrit sacrifice sacred ritual + Vedic religion + Rigveda + Yajurveda + Atharva Veda + Agnihotra daily fire-ritual + Ashvamedha horse-sacrifice + Bhagavad Gita 4:24 Brahmārpaṇam Brahma Havir
Vedic ritual

Names connected to Yagna.

The number behind Yagna.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yagna reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.