Entry № 4950 · Sanskrit origin

Jivika Jivika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JEE-vee-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Life-source"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "life-source".

Jivika is from the Sanskrit Jīvikā. BCE pan-Hindu Jain Buddhist life-heritage.

BCE pan-Hindu Jain Buddhist life-heritage

The name in its native script.

जीविका
Transliteration
Jīvikā
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒiː.vi.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jivika stands.

Jivika 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.

Jivikas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Jīvaka Komārabhacca physician of Buddha / Jīva Vedanta
Sanskrit means-of-livelihood + jīv to live + Jīva Vedanta + Jain + Jivakosthana Ayurveda + Buddhist Jīvaka Komārabhacca physician of Buddha ~5th c. BCE
Hindu Buddhist Jain

Names connected to Jivika.

The number behind Jivika.

8

The Visionary

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