Entry № 11648 · Sanskrit origin

Yajnavalkya Yajnavalkya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yahj-nah-VAHL-kyah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Vedic-Rishi / Upanishadic-teacher"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "vedic-rishi / upanishadic-teacher".

Yajnavalkya is from the Sanskrit Yājñavalkyā.

Vedic-Rishi / Upanishadic-teacher — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Yajnavalkya
Transliteration
Yājñavalkyā
Pronunciation
/ ˌjɑːdʒ.nɑːˈvɑːl.kjə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yajnavalkya stands.

Yajnavalkya 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.

Yajnavalkyas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Yajnavalkya.

The number behind Yajnavalkya.

6

The Nurturer

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