Entry № 10390 · Sanskrit origin

Tarunika Tarunika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ tah-ROO-nee-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Young woman"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "young woman".

Tarunika is from the Sanskrit Taruṇikā.

Young woman — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

तरुणिका
Transliteration
Taruṇikā
Pronunciation
/ tɑːˈruː.ni.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

What Tarunika is built from.

Tarunika is a compound name. Its parts are níkē — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

níkē
Greek
“victory”

Where Tarunika stands.

Tarunika 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.

Tarunikas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Kalidasa Kumarasambhava / Natyashastra
Sanskrit young woman youthful + taruṇa young + Kalidasas Kumarasambhava youth-of-Parvati + Bharatas Natyashastra aesthetic descriptions
Sanskrit aesthetics

Names connected to Tarunika.

The number behind Tarunika.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tarunika reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.