Entry № 8660 · Sanskrit origin

Renuka Renuka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ REH-noo-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Mother of Parashurama"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "mother of parashurama".

Renuka (रेणुका) is from the Sanskrit renu (atom, dust).

Mother of Parashurama — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

रेणुका
Transliteration
Reṇukā
Pronunciation
/ ˈrɛn.uː.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Renuka stands.

Renuka 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.

Renukas before her.

Real people
Renuka Chowdhury
Indian politician.
born 1954
In fiction
Renuka
Mother of Parashurama.

Names connected to Renuka.

The number behind Renuka.

7

The Seeker

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