Dhyaan
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- DYAHN
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,329 for boys
Dhyaan is a boys' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “meditation”. In 2025 it ranked 3,329th for boys in the UK (6 babies).
What does Dhyaan mean?
Sanskrit: spelling of Dhyan; from Sanskrit dhyana
“meditation”
Sanskrit dhyana, meditation, passed into Chinese as Chan and Japanese as Zen.
Meaning borrowed from Dhyan.
Is Dhyaan a girl's or a boy's name?
Dhyaan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Dhyaan in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,329th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 50,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steady much the same
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 6 boys in the UK were named Dhyaan, making it the 3,329th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,502nd. Its busiest year was 2017, with 8 boys.
2025 had more boys named Dhyaan than any year since 2017.
Half of all the boys named Dhyaan in the UK since 1996 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 29 boys in the UK were given Dhyaan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #973, up from #3,329 for this spelling alone.
- Dhyan 23
- Dhyaan 6
Among boys in 2025, it was 3,239th in England and Wales.
Dhyaan in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,329 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,346 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,193 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,195 |
| 2021 | 3 | #4,989 |
| 2020 | 5 | #3,502 |
| 2019 | 5 | #3,597 |
| 2018 | 3 | #4,959 |
| 2017 | 8 | #2,656 |
| 2016 | 3 | #5,015 |
| 2015 | 3 | #4,955 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,063 |
| 2013 | 6 | #3,096 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 3 | #4,865 |
Names like Dhyaan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Avyaan, Aarav, Vihaan, Shivansh, Veer, Dhruv, Aviraj, Daksh, Devansh, Shiv, Krishiv, Dhruvansh
Other spellings of Dhyaan
Names related to Dhyaan
More Sanskrit names
Maya, Bodhi, Arya, Lila, Arjun, Rohan, Kali, Aryan, Opal, Arjan, Aadhya, Ishaan, Siya, Leena, Veda, India
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Dhyaan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/dhyaan, updated 20 October 2026.