Entry № 38 · Tulu origin

Abbakka Abbakka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-BAH-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Tulu
Meaning
"Tulu queen who defeated the Portuguese"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (Tulu)

A name that means "tulu queen who defeated the portuguese".

Abbakka Chowta (c. 1525-c. 1570) was the Tulu queen of Ullal in coastal Karnataka — one of the first Indian rulers to fight and decisively defeat the Portuguese in the 16th century.

Tulu queen who defeated the Portuguese — a Tulu name.

The name in its native script.

ಅಬ್ಬಕ್ಕ
Transliteration
Abbakka
Pronunciation
/ əˈbɑː.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Abbakka stands.

Abbakka does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Abbakkas before her.

Real people
Abbakka Chowta
Tulu queen of Ullal.
c. 1525 – c. 1570
In fiction
Abbakka
Subject of Karnataka historical novels.

Names connected to Abbakka.

The number behind Abbakka.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Abbakka reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.