Entry № 1228 · Arabic origin

Bakhita Bakhita — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ bah-KEE-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Fortunate (Saint Josephine Bakhita; Sudanese-Italian saint)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "fortunate (saint josephine bakhita; sudanese-italian saint)".

Bakhita (بَخِيتَة) is the Arabic feminine of bakhīt — "fortunate, lucky, blessed" — bitterly ironic, since it was the name given by her kidnappers to the woman who would become Saint Josephine Bakhita (c. 1869-1947).

Fortunate (Saint Josephine Bakhita; Sudanese-Italian saint) — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

بَخِيتَة
Transliteration
Bakhīta
Pronunciation
/ bəˈkiː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Bakhita stands.

Bakhita 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.

Bakhitas before her.

Real people
Saint Josephine Bakhita
Sudanese-Italian saint.
c. 1869 – 1947
In fiction
Bakhita
Bakhita: From Slavery to Sainthood.
2013

Names connected to Bakhita.

The number behind Bakhita.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bakhita reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.