Entry № 5604 · Sanskrit origin

Kritika Kritika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KREE-tee-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Krittika Nakshatra / Pleiades"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "krittika nakshatra / pleiades".

Kritika is from the Sanskrit Kṛttikā.

Krittika Nakshatra / Pleiades — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

कृत्तिका
Transliteration
Kṛttikā
Pronunciation
/ ˈkriː.ti.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kritika stands.

Kritika 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.

Kritikas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Krittika 3rd Nakshatra Pleiades / Sapta-Matrs 7 mothers Karttikeya / Kartika month
Sanskrit third-Nakshatra Pleiades-star-cluster + third of 27 Nakshatras + seven-Kṛttikās Sapta-Mātṛs nursed Karttikeya after birth Shiva-Agni-Ganga + Kalidasas Kumārasambhava + Skanda Purana + Kṛttikā-Māsa Kārtika-month + razor-blade symbol + Agni-fire god ruling-deity
Vedic astrology

Names connected to Kritika.

The number behind Kritika.

7

The Seeker

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