Yasna

/Y-AE-S-N-AE/

Unisex MuslimZoroastrian Persian origin OtherPersian

Sacred worship, liturgy, from Avestan yasna, drawn from the verb yaz (to worship), cognate with Sanskrit yajna. Yasna is the central act of Zoroastrian devotion, the daily recited liturgy, so the name consecrates a child to holiness, prayer, and the sacred rite at the heart of the faith.

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Meaning & origin

Yasna is a unisex's name of Persian origin, traditionally used in Muslim families. The name means "Sacred worship, liturgy, from Avestan yasna, drawn from the verb yaz (to worship), cognate with Sanskrit yajna. Yasna is the central act of Zoroastrian devotion, the daily recited liturgy, so the name consecrates a child to holiness, prayer, and the sacred rite at the heart of the faith." and belongs to the Divine cluster — names rooted in sacred meaning and spiritual tradition.

Beyond its Muslim heritage, Yasna is also used in Zoroastrian traditions, reflecting how this name has traveled across cultures.

Common among Other, Persian families, Yasna carries cultural weight that goes beyond its dictionary definition — it's a name with a story and a community.

Numerology of Yasna

Numerology assigns each name a single-digit destiny number by summing its letter values. Different schools use different mappings — NameRoot computes both so you can see how Yasna resonates in either tradition.

Pythagorean
6
nurturing and family devotion
Chaldean
11
intuition and inspired leadership (master number)

How Yasna sounds

NameRoot scores the phonetic fit of every name against the sound of your last name. The pronunciation of Yasna breaks down into 5 phonemes: /Y-AE-S-N-AE/. In the app, you'll see how those sounds flow with your family name across rhythm, stress, and consonant clusters.

The six signals, applied to Yasna

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01 — Birth Star
Nakshatra match
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02 — Numerology
Destiny alignment
Pythagorean and Chaldean life-path calculations (destiny 6) matched against your family's own numerology profile.
03 — Phonetics
Last-name fit
Rhythm, stress, and consonant clusters measured with IPA to see how Yasna flows with your family name.
04 — Meaning
Divine
Yasna belongs to the Divine cluster — names rooted in sacred meaning and spiritual tradition.
05 — Cultural & Tradition
Muslim
As a Muslim name, Yasna carries religious and cultural weight scored against your family's heritage — plus grandparent-name matches, saint's-day alignment, and generational naming patterns scored against your family tree.
06 — Uniqueness
Popularity balance
How common Yasna is today versus historically — finding the sweet spot between familiar and forgotten.

Names similar to Yasna

If Yasna resonates with you, these names live in the same world — drawn from the same tradition, sharing the same meaning, or echoing a similar sound.

From the same tradition

Other Muslim unisex names, common in Other families

Pari
From Persian 'pari' (fairy, angel, supernatural beauty). Persian mythology. Cross-religious in India.
Mehr
Sun, affection, loving-kindness — from Persian mehr, descended from Avestan Mithra, the Indo-Iranian deity of the rising sun and of covenants. The autumn month Mehr and its solstice gatherings keep the word alive; a compact Persian name fusing warmth and light.
Baran
Rain — Persian in origin, Baran carries the weight of a naming tradition that prioritises depth of meaning over novelty of sound
Darya
Sea, ocean — from Persian daryā, traced to Avestan zrayah, ‘sea’; the Caspian is the Daryā-ye Khazar in Persian. A broad, flowing Persian name carrying the vastness of open water.

Sharing the same meaning

Other Muslim unisex names from the Divine cluster

Ferdous
Paradise, the highest walled garden of heaven. From Arabic-Persian firdaws, itself drawn from an Old Persian word for an enclosed orchard that travelled into Greek as paradeisos, it names the loftiest reward of the faithful. Widely used across Bangladesh for both girls and boys.
Ihsan
Excellence, the perfection of worship, doing beautiful deeds — Ihsan is the third pillar of the Hadith of Gabriel, the state of worshipping God as though you see Him
Sepanta
Sacred, holy, beneficent, from Avestan spenta, the same root that names the Amesha Spentas, the holy immortals of Zoroastrianism. As a name it confers a sense of consecrated goodness, marking a child as set apart and blessed, central to the Avestan moral vocabulary of sanctity.

Names that sound similar

Muslim unisex names that open with the same syllables as Yasna

Yaqin
Certainty, settled conviction, from the Arabic root y-q-n (to be certain). In the Quran yaqin names the highest, unshakeable form of spiritual knowledge, the truth of certainty, so the name gives a child an identity grounded in firm faith and unwavering, deep-rooted conviction.
Yekta
Unique, singular, one-of-a-kind — Yekta (Persian یکتا, from yek 'one' + -ta suffix) means 'the unique one, peerless.' In Sufi poetry, Yekta is an epithet for the divine — the One without second. A name carrying both the meaning of uniqueness and a quiet theological resonance.

Common questions about Yasna

What does the name Yasna mean?

Yasna means "Sacred worship, liturgy, from Avestan yasna, drawn from the verb yaz (to worship), cognate with Sanskrit yajna. Yasna is the central act of Zoroastrian devotion, the daily recited liturgy, so the name consecrates a child to holiness, prayer, and the sacred rite at the heart of the faith.." It is a unisex name of Persian origin, traditionally used in Muslim families.

Is Yasna a boy or girl name?

Yasna is a unisex name, used for any gender.

What is the origin of the name Yasna?

Yasna is of Persian origin, used in Muslim, Zoroastrian traditions, commonly among Other, Persian families.

What is the numerology of Yasna?

Yasna has a Pythagorean destiny number of 6 — nurturing and family devotion.

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