Entry № 10945 · Sanskrit origin

Upasika Upasika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ oo-PAH-see-kah /

Gender

Girl

Origin

Sanskrit

Meaning

"Female lay-devotee / Buddhist"

Syllables

First recorded

Ancient

The meaning

A name that means "female lay-devotee / buddhist".

Upasika is from the Sanskrit Upāsikā. BCE pan-Buddhist heritage.

BCE pan-Buddhist heritage

In its original form

The name in its native script.

उपासिका

Transliteration: Upāsikā
Pronunciation: / ʊˈpɑː.si.kə /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Upasika stands.

Upasika 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.

Namesakes

Upasikas before her.

Real people

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In fiction

Buddhist four Catuparisha / Visakha foremost Upasika ~5th c. BCE

Sanskrit female-lay-devotee approaching-one + upa- near + ās to sit + Buddhist alongside Upāsaka + Bhikṣu monk + Bhikṣuṇī nun Catupariṣā four-assemblies + Pali Canon Vinaya-Piṭaka + Visākhā foremost Upāsikā ~5th c. BCE

Buddhist

Names connected to Upasika.

Numerology

The number behind Upasika.

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Upasika reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.