Entry № 1264 · Arabic origin

Baraka Baraka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ bah-RAH-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Arabic
Meaning
"Blessing"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Arabic)

A name that means "blessing".

Baraka is from the Swahili / Arabic بَرَكَة (Baraka — blessing, divine grace, spiritual presence). Baraka is one of the Swahili + Arabic feminine + unisex names — central to traditional pan-African Muslim + Sufi heritage. The Arabic baraka concept is central to Sufi spiritual heritage pan-Islamic devotional heritage.

Blessing — a Arabic name.

The name in its native script.

بَرَكَة
Transliteration
Baraka
Pronunciation
/ bəˈrɑː.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Baraka stands.

Baraka 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.

Barakas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Baraka (film)
1992 Ron Fricke non-narrative film + meditation on world spirituality.

Names connected to Baraka.

The number behind Baraka.

7

The Seeker

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