Entry № 5605 · Sanskrit origin

Krittika Krittika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KRIT-tee-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Pleiades / Sapta-Matrs"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "pleiades / sapta-matrs".

Krittika is from the Sanskrit Kṛttikā.

Pleiades / Sapta-Matrs — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

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

Where Krittika stands.

Krittika 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.

Krittikas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Krittika 3rd Nakshatra Pleiades / 7 Krittikas Sapta-Matrs Kartikeya foster mothers 6 heads / Kartika month October-November / Kartika-Deepam
Sanskrit Pleiades third-Nakshatra + Kṛttikā third of 27 Nakshatras Vedic astrology + Sapta-Kṛttikās seven-mothers Śiva-Agni-Ganga-born Kartikeya-foster-mothers + Kartikeya six-heads Ṣaṇmukha + Kṛttikā-Māsa Kārtika October-November + Kārtika-Pūrṇimā Deepam Tamil + razor-blade + Agni + Kalidasas Kumārasambhava + Skanda Purana
Vedic Krittika

Names connected to Krittika.

The number behind Krittika.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Krittika reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.