Entry № 7099 · Sanskrit origin

Nachiketi Nachiketi — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nah-chee-KEH-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Fire-of-knowledge / seeker"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern

A name that means "fire-of-knowledge / seeker".

Nachiketi is from the Sanskrit Naciketī.

Fire-of-knowledge / seeker — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

Nachiketi
Transliteration
Naciketī
Pronunciation
/ nə.tʃɪˈkeː.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nachiketi stands.

Nachiketi 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.

Nachiketis before her.

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In fiction

Names connected to Nachiketi.

The number behind Nachiketi.

8

The Visionary

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