Meghana

A girls’ name of Sanskrit origin, meaning great, magnificent, or cloud.

Babies a year
8
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Meghana by the numbers

Meghana was given to 8 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 65 babies in 2001, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Meghana. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Meghanpearl; a form of Margaret162 in the US (2017)
  • Meghnafragrant cloud or mist13 in the US (2017)
  • Meghanngreat; mighty; a variant of megan
  • Meganpearl; a form of margaret624 in the US (2017)
  • Meghacloud16 in the US (2017)
  • Melanadark or black; a form of Melanie13 in the US (2017)

Other names that mean the sky or heaven

Like Meghana, each of these has the sky or heaven in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Leilaniheavenly flower2,264 in the US (2017)
  • Irisrainbow; goddess of the rainbow759 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Heavensky; the abode of god967 in the US (2017)
  • Skyesky; the Isle of Skye214 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Celesteheavenly, celestial671 in the US (2017)
  • Itzelrainbow lady635 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Meghana

MatyldaAzayliaJapjiYoonaYuvikaAnabiyaDuhaZaeleigh

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