Kalyana
Kalyana means good fortune, happiness, prosperity.
Meaning: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).
| Gender | unisex |
| Origin | Kannada |
| Language | Kannada |
| Starts with | K |
Classical Sanskrit origin
कल्याण (kalyāṇa): good fortune, happiness, prosperity.
Source: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), a public-domain scholarly reference — not every popular name today traces to a classical dictionary entry, so this section only appears where a verified match exists.
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “good fortune, happiness, prosperity”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Shreya — Meanings families give: Auspicious, fortunate; Auspicious, fortunate, excellent; Auspicious, best; one who brings good fortune; Auspicious, better, fortunate; Auspicious, fortunate, prosperity; Beautiful, auspicious, fortunate
- Riddhi — Meanings families give: Prosperity, good fortune; Prosperity, fortune; Prosperity, wealth and auspicious good fortune; Prosperity, good fortune, success
- Shubham — Meanings families give: Auspicious, pure and full of good omens and blessings; Auspicious, good fortune
- Subhashree — Good fortune, beautiful blessing
- Sreelakshmi — Meanings families give: Goddess Lakshmi; Auspicious Lakshmi, fortune and grace
- Kalyani — Meanings families give: Auspicious, one who brings welfare; Auspicious, beautiful, fortunate; Auspicious, bestower of good fortune; Auspicious, fortunate, goddess Lakshmi; Auspicious, blessed, prosperous
Where this comes from
Kalyana's etymology is verified against Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899). Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.