Entry № 1032 · Arabic origin

Atika Atika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-tee-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Pure, virtuous (Prophet's aunt)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "pure, virtuous (prophet's aunt)".

Atika (عاتكة) is the Arabic word for "pure" or "virtuous." Atika bint Abd al-Muttalib was an aunt of Prophet Muhammad — known for her prophetic dream warning of the Battle of Badr (624 CE). Several other women in early Islam bore the name.

Featured prominently in Islamic biographical literature.

Pure, virtuous. The Prophet's aunt who dreamed of Badr.

The name in its native script.

عاتكة
Transliteration
ʿĀtika
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑː.tɪ.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Atika stands.

Atika 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.

Atikas before her.

Real people
Atika bint Abd al-Muttalib
Aunt of Prophet Muhammad.
7th c.
In fiction
Atika
Common in Islamic literature.

Names connected to Atika.

The number behind Atika.

6

The Nurturer

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