Entry № 10367 · Sanskrit origin

Tarangika Tarangika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tah-RAHN-gee-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Little wave"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "little wave".

Tarangika is from the Sanskrit Taraṅgikā.

Little wave — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

तरङ्गिका
Transliteration
Taraṅgikā
Pronunciation
/ təˈrɑːn.ɡi.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tarangika stands.

Tarangika 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.

Tarangikas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kalhana Rajatarangini Kashmir chronicle 1148-1149 / Somadeva Kathasaritsagara 11th c.
Sanskrit small-wave gentle-ripple + taraṅga wave + Rājataraṅgiṇī River-of-Kings Sanskrit chronicle-of-Kashmir-kings by Kalhana ~1148-1149 8-chapters 7826-verses earliest-extant-historical-work + Kathāsaritsāgara Ocean-of-Streams-of-Stories by Somadeva ~11th c. 22000 slokas + Kalidasa
Sanskrit literature

Names connected to Tarangika.

The number behind Tarangika.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tarangika reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.