What does the name Kalyana mean?

Kalyana means "Auspicious, good, welfare". It is a unisex name of Kannada origin.

What is the classical Sanskrit origin of Kalyana?

कल्याण (kalyāṇa): good fortune, happiness, prosperity, per the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).

Kalyana

Kalyana means Auspicious, good, welfare.

Gender	unisex
Origin	Kannada
Language	Kannada
Starts with	K

Classical Sanskrit origin

कल्याण (kalyāṇa): good fortune, happiness, prosperity.

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 “Auspicious, good, welfare”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Kalyan — Auspicious, welfare
Sukalyan — Of complete welfare; for the good of all
Shreya — Auspicious, fortunate
Shiv — Auspicious, Lord Shiva
Saanvika — Goddess Lakshmi, auspicious and divine
Shivam — Auspicious, good and embodying the grace of Shiva

Where this comes from

Kalyana'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.