Entry № 8501 · Greek origin

Raluca Raluca — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ rah-LOO-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"Helen variant (Romanian + Raluca Strămăturariu)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Romanian)

A name that means "helen variant (romanian + raluca strămăturariu)".

Raluca is from the Romanian Raluca — Romanian rendition of Răluca / Heruvica — possibly from the Greek Heruvika (cherubic) or from a Romanian-medieval contraction of Smaragda (emerald). Raluca is one of the Romanian feminine names — central to traditional Romanian Orthodox heritage.

Cherubic / emerald (Romanian-Greek).

The name in its native script.

Raluca
Transliteration
Raluca
Pronunciation
/ rəˈluː.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Raluca stands.

Raluca 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.

Ralucas before her.

Real people
Raluca Sturdza
Moldavian boyar lady + Mihai Eminescu's mother.
1788 – 1844
In fiction
Raluca
Romanian Helen variant.

Names connected to Raluca.

The number behind Raluca.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Raluca reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.