Entry № 1039 · 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).

Featured prominently in Islamic biographical literature.

Pure, virtuous (Prophet's aunt) — a Arabic name.

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.