Entry № 5407 · Sanskrit origin

Ketaki Ketaki — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KEH-tah-kee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Screwpine flower / Shiva story"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "screwpine flower / shiva story".

Ketaki is from the Sanskrit Ketakī.

Screwpine flower / Shiva story — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

केतकी
Transliteration
Ketakī
Pronunciation
/ ˈkɛ.tə.ki /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ketaki stands.

Ketaki 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.

Ketakis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Shiva Purana Ketaki curse / Linga Purana / Kalidasa
Sanskrit screwpine-flower Pandanus odoratissimus + sacred-yet-forbidden-for-Shiva-worship + Śiva Purana narrative Ketaki lied to help Brahma about Shiva-Linga-top forever-cursing from Shiva-worship + Linga-Purāṇa + Kalidasa + Ayurvedic-perfumery
Hindu Shaiva

Names connected to Ketaki.

The number behind Ketaki.

3

The Communicator

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