Entry № 11791 · Sanskrit origin

Yoga Yoga — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YOH-gah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Union / discipline"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "union / discipline".

Yoga is from the Sanskrit Yogā. BCE-4th c.

Union / discipline — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

योगा

Transliteration: Yogā
Pronunciation: / ˈjoʊ.ɡə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Yoga stands.

Yoga 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.

Namesakes

Yogas before her.

Real people

—

In fiction

Yoga 6 Darshanas Nyaya Vaisheshika Samkhya Mimamsa Vedanta / Patanjali Yoga Sutras 2nd BCE-4th c. 196 sutras 4 Padas Samadhi Sadhana Vibhuti Kaivalya / Ashtanga Yama Niyama Asana Pranayama Pratyahara Dharana Dhyana Samadhi / 1.2 yogash chitta-vritti-nirodhah / Bhagavad Gita 2:48 6:23

Sanskrit union yoke-together discipline + yuj to yoke + Yoga union-with-Divine six-Darshanas Nyāya + Vaiśeṣika + Sāṃkhya + Mīmāṃsā + Vedānta + Patanjalis Yoga Sutras ~2nd c. BCE-4th c. 196-sutras Samādhi + Sādhana + Vibhūti + Kaivalya + Aṣṭāṅga-Yoga Yama + Niyama + Āsana + Prāṇāyāma + Pratyāhāra + Dhāraṇā + Dhyāna + Samādhi + 1.2 yogaś citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ + Bhagavad Gita 2:48 samatvaṃ yoga ucyate + 6:23 taṃ vidyād duḥkha-saṃyoga-viyogaṃ

Yoga Patanjali

Names connected to Yoga.

Numerology

The number behind Yoga.

The Communicator

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