Entry № 374 · Sanskrit origin

Alaka Alaka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-lah-kah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"City of Kubera / hair-curl"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "city of kubera / hair-curl".

Alaka is from the Sanskrit Alakā.

City of Kubera / hair-curl — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

अलका

Transliteration: Alakā
Pronunciation: / ˈɑː.lə.kə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Alaka stands.

Alaka 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.

Namesakes

Alakas before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Kalidasa Meghaduta Yaksha message to Alaka / Kubera capital Kailasa

Sanskrit city-of-Kubera curl-of-hair + Alakā-Purī capital of Kubera god-of-wealth on Mount-Kailasa + Kalidasas Meghadūta Yaksha message to wife in Alaka + Ramayana + Mahabharata + Puranas + Alakāpurī

Kalidasa Meghaduta

Names connected to Alaka.

Numerology

The number behind Alaka.

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Alaka reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.