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Sahana

Sahana: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“patience; endurance”
Origin
Sanskrit
Say it
suh-HAH-nuh · 3 syllables
Used for
Girls

From Sanskrit saha related to enduring or bearing; Sahana is used in India as a feminine given name. It is also the name of a Carnatic raga.

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How popular is Sahana?

202434.0 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 Sahana in 2024113

2024 rank#1,781 girls

Peak year2011

Total US babies since 18802,768

Sahana has been fairly stable over the last fifteen years.

Names like Sahana

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

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  • Opalgem; precious stone · Sanskrit
  • Ariyanoble · Sanskrit
  • Vedaknowledge · Sanskrit
  • Tarastar · Sanskrit
  • Anikagrace · Sanskrit

Sahana questions

What does the name Sahana mean?

Sahana means "patience; endurance". It comes from Sanskrit. From Sanskrit saha related to enduring or bearing; Sahana is used in India as a feminine given name. It is also the name of a Carnatic raga.

Is Sahana a boy or girl name?

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

How popular is Sahana?

113 US babies were named Sahana in 2024. Its peak year was 2011.

How do you pronounce Sahana?

Sahana is usually pronounced suh-HAH-nuh.

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.