Entry № 6773 · Sanskrit origin

Menaka Menaka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ MEH-nah-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Apsara who tempted Vishvamitra"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "apsara who tempted vishvamitra".

Menaka (मेनका) is from the Sanskrit menā (woman).

Featured in the Mahabharata and Ramayana.

Apsara. Distracted the sage Vishvamitra from his meditation.

The name in its native script.

मेनका
Transliteration
Menakā
Pronunciation
/ ˈmɛn.ə.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Menaka stands.

Menaka 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.

Menakas before her.

Real people
Maneka Gandhi
Indian politician.
born 1956
In fiction
Menaka
Mother of Shakuntala in Abhijnanasakuntalam.
Kalidasa

Names connected to Menaka.

The number behind Menaka.

9

The Giver

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