Entry № 11651 · Sanskrit origin

Yajnika Yajnika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ YAHJ-nee-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Sacrificer / Yajna-performer (Vedic)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "sacrificer / yajna-performer (vedic)".

Yajnika is from the Sanskrit Yājñikā.

Sacrificer / Yajna-performer (Vedic) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

याज्ञिका
Transliteration
Yājñikā
Pronunciation
/ ˈjɑːdʒ.ni.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

What Yajnika is built from.

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

níkē
Greek
“victory”

Where Yajnika stands.

Yajnika 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.

Yajnikas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Vedic Yajnika ritual-service / Purva Mimamsa
Sanskrit sacrificer performer-of-Yajna + yaj to worship + Vedic-sacrificer four ritual-service classes + Rigveda + Yajurveda + Sama Veda + Atharva Veda + Brahmana ritual-manuals + Bhagavad Gita 3:9-16 + Purva Mimamsa
Vedic priesthood

Names connected to Yajnika.

The number behind Yajnika.

8

The Visionary

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