Entry № 4688 · Sanskrit origin

Ishika Ishika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-SHEE-kah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Paintbrush / arrow"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "paintbrush / arrow".

Ishika is from the Sanskrit Iṣikā.

Paintbrush / arrow — a Sanskrit name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

इषिका

Transliteration: Iṣikā
Pronunciation: / iːˈʃiː.kə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Ishika stands.

Ishika 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.

Namesakes

Ishikas before her.

Real people

—

In fiction

Darbha sacred grass / Kushinagar

Sanskrit paintbrush + sacred grass + darbha Vedic ritual yajna + Kushinagar grass where Buddha attained Mahaparinirvana + Hindu Buddhist ritual heritage

Vedic ritual

Names connected to Ishika.

Numerology

The number behind Ishika.

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ishika reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.