Entry № 8188 · Sanskrit origin

Plavika Plavika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PLAH-vee-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Little boat / floating"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "little boat / floating".

Plavika is from the Sanskrit Plavikā.

Little boat / floating — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

प्लविका
Transliteration
Plavikā
Pronunciation
/ ˈplɑː.vi.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Plavika stands.

Plavika 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.

Plavikas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Plava boat Vedic Yajna-Nava / Moksha-Sagara-Taraka Devi Guru / Mundaka 2.2.6 pluta-svara / Adi Shankara Bhaja Govindam
Sanskrit small-boat floating + plu to float + Plava boat + Vedic Yajña-Nava + Mokṣa-Sāgara-Tāraka Devi-Guru + Mundaka Upanishad 2.2.6 pluta-svara elongated-vowel Vedic-recitation + Adi Shankaracharya Bhaja Govindam 1 nahi nahi rakṣati ḍukṛñ-karaṇe
Hindu Plava

Names connected to Plavika.

The number behind Plavika.

9

The Giver

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