Entry № 11650 · Sanskrit origin

Yajnesha Yajnesha — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yahj-NEH-shah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Lord of sacrifice / Vishnu"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "lord of sacrifice / vishnu".

Yajnesha is from the Sanskrit Yajñeśa.

Lord of sacrifice / Vishnu — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

यज्ञेश
Transliteration
Yajñeśa
Pronunciation
/ jɑːdʒˈnɛ.ʃə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yajnesha stands.

Yajnesha 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.

Yajneshas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Vishnu Sahasranama Yajnesha / Bhagavad Gita 3:10 9:16
Sanskrit Lord-of-sacrifice + yajña sacrifice + īśa lord + Vishnu Sahasranama + Bhagavad Gita 3:10 saha-yajñāḥ prajāḥ sṛṣṭvā + Bhagavad Gita 9:16 ahaṃ kratur ahaṃ yajñaḥ I am the sacrifice
Vaishnava

Names connected to Yajnesha.

The number behind Yajnesha.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yajnesha reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.