Meena
Meena means Fish, a star, precious stone.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | girl |
| Origin | Tamil |
| Language | Tamil |
| Starts with | M |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Fish, a star, precious stone”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Meenakshi — Meanings families give: Fish-eyed goddess, Parvati of Madurai; Fish-eyed Goddess, Goddess Parvati; Fish-eyed goddess, form of Parvati; Fish-eyed, Goddess Parvati
- Minakshi — Meanings families give: Fish-eyed goddess, Parvati of Madurai; Fish-eyed goddess; Goddess Meenakshi
- Kayalvizhi — Fish-shaped eyes, beautiful eyes
- Neiyal — A fish, the silver fish
- Meenal — Meanings families give: A precious stone, turquoise, gem; Precious blue stone, gem
- Suryakanta — ‘sun-loved’, the sun-stone, sun-crystal (a kind of crystal supposed to possess fabulous properties as giving out heat when exposed to the sun; there is a corresponding moonstone See -; also -)
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Where this comes from
Meena has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. 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.