Entry № 935 · Sanskrit origin

Arunika Arunika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-roo-NEE-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Dawn / rosy-red"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "dawn / rosy-red".

Arunika is from the Sanskrit Aruṇikā.

Dawn / rosy-red — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

अरुणिका
Transliteration
Aruṇikā
Pronunciation
/ ˌɑː.ruːˈniː.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

What Arunika is built from.

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

níkē
Greek
“victory”

Where Arunika stands.

Arunika 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.

Arunikas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Aruna Suryas charioteer red dawn brother of Garuda Kashyapa Vinata / Aruna-Prakasha Aruna-Usha / Aruna Vedic poetess Aitareya Aranyaka / Aruna guardian East / Arunachala-Mahatmya Tiruvannamalai Shiva Jyotirlinga fire Skanda Purana / Ramana Maharshi 1879-1950 / Arunika-Upanishad
Sanskrit rosy-red dawn-related + aruṇa reddish + Aruṇa charioteer-of-Sūrya brother-of-Garuda Kaśyapa + Vinatā + Aruṇa-Prakāśa + Aruṇa-Uṣā + Aruṇā Vedic-poetess Aitareya Āraṇyaka + Aruṇa guardian-of-East + Aruṇācala-Mahatmya Tiruvannamalai Tamil Nadu Shiva-Jyotirlinga-fire Skanda Purana + Ramana Maharshi 1879-1950 Aruṇācala + Aruṇa-Nāgeśvara-Śarma + Aruṇika-Upanishad
Arunika Arunachala

Names connected to Arunika.

The number behind Arunika.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Arunika reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.