Entry № 11803 · Sanskrit origin

Yojana Yojana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ yoh-JAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Vedic distance unit"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "vedic distance unit".

Yojana is from the Sanskrit Yojanā.

Vedic distance unit — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

योजना
Transliteration
Yojanā
Pronunciation
/ joʊˈdʒɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yojana stands.

Yojana 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.

Yojanas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Surya Siddhanta / Indian government Yojana
Sanskrit Vedic unit ~8-15 km + Vedic + Puranic geography + Mahabharata + Ramayana distance + Surya Siddhanta Sanskrit astronomical treatise + modern Indian government Yojana schemes
Hindu astronomy

Names connected to Yojana.

The number behind Yojana.

3

The Communicator

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