Entry № 10594 · Indonesian origin

Tika Tika — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TEE-kah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Indonesian
Meaning
"Sun, dot of vermilion"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "sun, dot of vermilion".

Tika in Indonesian-Javanese means "sun." In Sanskrit (तिका), it means "small dot of vermilion" — the bindi on the forehead. Common name across Southeast Asia.

Tika Sumpter (born 1980) is the American actress (Sonic the Hedgehog).

Sun. The Indonesian-Sanskrit.

The name in its native script.

तिका
Transliteration
Tikā
Pronunciation
/ ˈtiː.kə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tika stands.

Tika 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.

Tikas before her.

Real people
Tika Sumpter
American actress.
born 1980
In fiction
Tika
Common in Indonesian fiction.

Names connected to Tika.

The number behind Tika.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tika reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.