Entry № 8020 · Pali origin

Patacara Patacara — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ pah-TAH-chah-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Pali
Meaning
"Cloak-walker (Buddhist nun who lost everything)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Pali)

A name that means "cloak-walker (buddhist nun who lost everything)".

Patacara is from the Pali pata (cloak) and cara (walker). She became foremost in mastery of the Vinaya (monastic discipline) and famous for her teachings to mothers who had lost children.

Featured in the Therigatha and Dhammapada commentary.

Cloak-walker (Buddhist nun who lost everything) — a Pali name.

The name in its native script.

पटाचारा
Transliteration
Paṭācārā
Pronunciation
/ pəˈtɑː.tʃɑː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Patacara stands.

Patacara 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.

Patacaras before her.

Real people
Patacara
Buddhist arhat-nun.
In fiction
Patacara
Featured in the Therigatha.

Names connected to Patacara.

The number behind Patacara.

7

The Seeker

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