Entry № 9486 · Sanskrit origin

Shalaka Shalaka — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shah-LAH-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Rod / criterion"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "rod / criterion".

Shalaka is from the Sanskrit Śalākā.

Rod / criterion — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

शलाका
Transliteration
Śalākā
Pronunciation
/ ʃəˈlɑː.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shalaka stands.

Shalaka 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.

Shalakas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Paninis Aṣṭādhyāyī / Jain Shalaka Purusha
Sanskrit rod wand criterion + Paninis Aṣṭādhyāyī ~5th-4th c. BCE Sanskrit grammar + Jain Shalaka Purusha 63 great-souls + Hemachandras Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Charitra ~12th c.
Sanskrit + Jain

Names connected to Shalaka.

The number behind Shalaka.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shalaka reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.