Entry № 5769 · Sanskrit origin

Latika Latika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LAH-tee-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Small creeper, elegant vine"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "small creeper, elegant vine".

Latika (लतिका) is the Sanskrit diminutive of latā (creeper, vine) — meaning "small creeper" or "elegant vine."

Latika is the female lead of Slumdog Millionaire (2008).

Small creeper. The Slumdog Millionaire heroine.

The name in its native script.

लतिका
Transliteration
Latikā
Pronunciation
/ ˈlɑː.tɪ.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Latika stands.

Latika 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.

Latikas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Latika
Heroine of Slumdog Millionaire.
2008 film

Names connected to Latika.

The number behind Latika.

9

The Giver

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