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Akka Akka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AHK-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Elder sister (Akkamahadevi - 12th-c. Lingayat saint poet)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Kannada)

A name that means "elder sister (akkamahadevi - 12th-c. lingayat saint poet)".

Akka is from the Kannada akka (ಅಕ್ಕ — elder sister) — honorific used for the Lingayat saint Akkamahadevi. Akkamahadevi (c. 1130-1160) was a 12th-century Kannada poet and prominent figure in the Lingayat (Veerashaiva) Bhakti movement of Karnataka — alongside Basavanna, Allama Prabhu, and Channabasavanna. Her samadhi is at Srisailam, Andhra Pradesh.

and Lingayat Bhakti tradition.

Elder sister (Kannada). Akkamahadevi — 12th-c.

The name in its native script.

ಅಕ್ಕ
Transliteration
Akka
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑːk.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Akka stands.

Akka 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.

Akkas before her.

Real people
Akkamahadevi
12th-c. Kannada Lingayat saint poet.
c. 1130 – 1160
In fiction
Akka
Kannada elder sister.

Names connected to Akka.

The number behind Akka.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Akka reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.