Entry № 5262 · Indonesian origin

Kartika Kartika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ kar-TEE-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Indonesian
Meaning
"Star, Pleiades"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "star, pleiades".

Kartika (Sanskrit Kṛttikā) is the constellation Pleiades — also the Sanskrit name of a month. In Indonesian, used as a feminine name.

Kartika Affandi (born 1934) is the Indonesian painter, daughter of the famous Affandi.

Pleiades. The Indonesian-Sanskrit star.

The name in its native script.

Kartika
Transliteration
Kartika
Pronunciation
/ kɑːrˈtiː.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Kartika stands.

Kartika 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.

Kartikas before her.

Real people
Kartika Affandi
Indonesian painter.
born 1934
In fiction
Kartika
Common in Indonesian fiction.

Names connected to Kartika.

The number behind Kartika.

8

The Visionary

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