Meghna

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: River, clouds, rain bearer; The river Meghna; cloud-river of Bengal”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Tomal — Dark-complexioned tree; the Tomal tree of Bengal
• Ghanshyam — Dark-complexioned like clouds, a name for Krishna
• Megarajan — King of clouds
• Meghana — Meanings families give: Cloud, rain; Cloud, rain cloud, musical raaga; Cloud, rain-bearing cloud; Cloud, rainy sky
• Megha — Meanings families give: Cloud, rain cloud; Cloud, rain, sky
• Shyam — Meanings families give: Dark complexioned, a beloved name for Lord Krishna; Dark, Krishna, cloud-like, beautiful dark one

More girls' names of Bengali / Sanskrit origin

• Sahana — Meanings families give: Patience, raga name; Patient, enduring, tolerant; Patience, tolerance; a classical raga; Patience, endurance, musical raga
• Debika — Meanings families give: Little goddess; Little goddess; divine feminine form
• Nilanjana — Meanings families give: Blue-eyed, dark eyes like a doe; Blue-eyed; one with blue-tinted eyes
• Kuhu — Meanings families give: Singing of birds, cuckoo sound; Song of the cuckoo; sweet melodious bird
• Trishna — thirst, i
• Kasturi — Meanings families give: Musk deer fragrance, perfume; Musk deer; precious fragrant substance

Where this comes from

Meghna 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.