Entry № 11643 · Sanskrit origin

Yajna Yajna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YAHJ-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Vedic sacrifice"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "vedic sacrifice".

Yajna is from the Sanskrit Yajñā.

Vedic sacrifice — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

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

Where Yajna stands.

Yajna 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.

Yajnas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ashvamedha Rajasuya Vajapeya Agnihotra / Bhagavad Gita 3:9-16
Sanskrit sacred-sacrifice Vedic-fire-ritual + yaj to worship + pan-Vedic ritual-form ~3500 years + Aśvamedha + Rājasūya + Vājapeya + Agnihotra + Bhagavad Gita 3:9-16 yajñārthāt karmaṇo action-as-sacrifice + Rigveda + Yajurveda
Vedic Yajna

Names connected to Yajna.

The number behind Yajna.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yajna reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.