Cahaya
Cahaya is a baby name of Indonesian origin, meaning Light.
What Cahaya means
Light.
Cahaya sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Cahaya comes from
Indonesian names draw on Sanskrit, Arabic, and local languages across the archipelago, and many are transparently meaningful words.
Cahaya is recorded as Indonesian in origin. Browse other Indonesian names.
How popular is Cahaya?
Cahaya is not in the current top 100 baby names we track. In practice that means a child called Cahaya is unlikely to be one of three in a classroom — the name is established and recognisable, just not in heavy circulation right now.
The character of Cahaya
We group Cahaya under light and brightness. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.
Themes: Light
Names like Cahaya
These share Cahaya's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Chen — Morning, dawn.
- Anh — Bright; hero; flower petal.
- Chiara — Bright, clear, light.
- Clara — Bright, clear, famous.
- Cyrus — Sun; lord.
- Hadar — Splendour; glory.
- Haru — Spring; sunlight.
- Hinata — Sunny place; toward the sun.
- Lux — Light.
- Minh — Bright, intelligent.
- Nour — Light.
- Sunny — Bright and cheerful as the sun.