Entry № 5410 · Sanskrit origin

Kethaki Kethaki — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ keh-TAH-kee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Pandanus flower (Shiva myth)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "pandanus flower (shiva myth)".

Kethaki is from the Sanskrit Ketakī.

Pandanus flower (Shiva myth) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

केतकी
Transliteration
Ketakī
Pronunciation
/ kɛˈtɑː.ki /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kethaki stands.

Kethaki 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.

Kethakis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Shiva Purana / Ketaki curse
Sanskrit pandanus screw-pine flower + Ketaki cursed by Lord Shiva never used in his worship + Shiva Purana + Sanskrit aesthetic-poetic + Kalidasa
Hindu mythology

Names connected to Kethaki.

The number behind Kethaki.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Kethaki reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.