Entry № 596 · Sanskrit origin

Anahika Anahika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-NAH-hee-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Mercury / Buddha-planet"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "mercury / buddha-planet".

Anahika is from the Sanskrit Anāhikā.

Mercury / Buddha-planet — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

अनाहिका
Transliteration
Anāhikā
Pronunciation
/ əˈnɑː.hi.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anahika stands.

Anahika 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.

Anahikas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Navagraha Budha Mercury / Varahamihira Brihat Jataka 6th c.
Sanskrit mercury Buddha-planet + Budha Mercury + Navagraha nine-planets + Bṛhat Jātaka by Varāhamihira ~6th c. + Sūrya-Siddhānta astronomical + Budha-Vāra Wednesday + Puranic Budha-Purūravā-Ilā
Vedic astrology

Names connected to Anahika.

The number behind Anahika.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anahika reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.