Entry № 912 · Sanskrit origin

Arnika Arnika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AHR-nee-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Little ocean / waters"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "little ocean / waters".

Arnika is from the Sanskrit Arṇikā.

Little ocean / waters — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

अर्णिका
Transliteration
Arṇikā
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑːr.ni.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Arnika stands.

Arnika 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.

Arnikas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Rigveda 10.9 Apo Hi Shtha waters / Arnava-Shayi Vishnu Narayana / Kshirarnava Samudra Manthan
Sanskrit little-ocean waters + arṇa wave + Arṇava ocean Vedic + Rigveda 10.9 Āpo Hi Ṣṭhā + Arṇava-Śāyī Vishnu-Nārāyaṇa + Kṣīrārṇava milk-ocean Samudra Manthan + Bhāgīrathī Ganga-descent
Vedic waters

Names connected to Arnika.

The number behind Arnika.

9

The Giver

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