Entry № 1933 · Quechua origin

Chaska Chaska — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ CHAHS-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Quechua
Meaning
"Star; morning star"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "star; morning star".

Chaska means a star, and the bright morning star — Venus at dawn. It carries light, hope and beauty.

Star; morning star — a Quechua name.

The name in its native script.

Chaska
Transliteration
Chaska
Pronunciation
/ ˈtʃas.ka /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Chaska stands.

Chaska 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.

Chaskas before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Chaska.

The number behind Chaska.

7

The Seeker

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