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Ahana

Ahana: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“dawn; first light”
Origin
Sanskrit
Say it
ah-HAH-nah · 3 syllables
Used for
Girls

Ahana is used in India and is generally traced to Sanskrit, associated with dawn or the first rays of sunlight. It is also sometimes linked with poetic names for daybreak.

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How popular is Ahana?

202437.0 per million US babies
1880192019602000
Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Ahana in 2024124

2024 rank#1,655 girls

Peak year2024

Total US babies since 18801,278

Ahana is rising: use over the last five years is 1.7× what it was a decade earlier.

Names like Ahana

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Aryanoble; honorable · Sanskrit
  • Kalithe black one · Sanskrit
  • Alayadwelling, abode · Sanskrit
  • Opalgem; precious stone · Sanskrit
  • Ariyanoble · Sanskrit
  • Vedaknowledge · Sanskrit
  • Tarastar · Sanskrit
  • Anikagrace · Sanskrit

Ahana questions

What does the name Ahana mean?

Ahana means "dawn; first light". It comes from Sanskrit. Ahana is used in India and is generally traced to Sanskrit, associated with dawn or the first rays of sunlight. It is also sometimes linked with poetic names for daybreak.

Is Ahana a boy or girl name?

Ahana is mainly a girl's name in US records (100% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Ahana?

124 US babies were named Ahana in 2024. Its peak year was 2024.

How do you pronounce Ahana?

Ahana is usually pronounced ah-HAH-nah.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.