Vandana
Carries the sense of "worship" or "salutation", a word of greeting turned into a name. In Poland it barely registers: only about 32 women hold it, all of them, and no girl has been given it in years.
Vandana Pronunciation
What Vandana means
Where Vandana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vandana comes from Sanskrit. The word vandanā (वन्दना) grows from the root vand-, to bow and to praise, and its short meaning stays close to that source: worship, adoration, salutation. Many names wear a sense fastened on long after birth. This one keeps the meaning of its root.
In the devotional texts of India, vandana names one of the nine forms of bhakti, the homage a person offers to what they hold sacred. The word points to an act. It is the low bow and the spoken word of greeting, given to a teacher or a god.
In Poland the name carries no imieniny of its own. On a school class register it would sit apart from the Julias and Zuzannas nearby, an Indian word set among Polish ones. Polish grammar bends it without trouble. Vandany, Vandanie, the case endings take the name in cleanly.
How many people are named Vandana
1 in 704495 women in Poland is named Vandana. 32 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7222 among female names.
Vandana as a middle name
Vandana is a first name for 32 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 94/6 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 6921st, between Valéria (2) and Vanessza (2).
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#6919 Vahide2
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#6920 Valéria2
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#6921 Vandana2
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#6922 Vanessza2
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#6923 Vani2