What does the name Gagan mean?

Gagan means "Sky, the heavens above". It is a unisex name of Punjabi origin.

What is the classical Sanskrit origin of Gagan?

गगन (gagana): the atmosphere, sky, firmament, per the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).

Gagan

Gagan means Sky, the heavens above.

Gender	unisex
Origin	Punjabi
Language	Punjabi
Starts with	G

Classical Sanskrit origin

गगन (gagana): the atmosphere, sky, firmament.

Source: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), a public-domain scholarly reference — not every popular name today traces to a classical dictionary entry, so this section only appears where a verified match exists.

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Sky, the heavens above”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Arshita — Blessed, divine, from the heavens
Ambar — Sky, the heavens, amber
Aakash — Sky, infinite open space above
Anish — Supreme, without a ruler above, absolute

More unisex names of Punjabi origin

Manpreet — Heart's love, beloved of the mind
Harpreet — Love of God, God's beloved
Amrit — Nectar, immortal
Amandeep — Lamp of peace
Anmol — Priceless, invaluable gem
Mandeep — Lamp of the mind, light of thought

Where this comes from

Gagan's etymology is verified against Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899). 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.