Entry № 11028 · Sanskrit origin

Vac Vac — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VAHK /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Speech (Vedic goddess of language)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "speech (vedic goddess of language)".

Vac (वाच्) is the Sanskrit word for "speech, voice, sacred utterance." The Vedic goddess of speech and language — celebrated in Rig Veda 10.125, the famous Devi-sukta, where she speaks in the first person as the cosmic principle of language that pervades all beings. Precursor to Saraswati.

Featured in Rig Veda 10.125.

Speech (Vedic goddess of language) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

वाच्
Transliteration
Vāc
Pronunciation
/ vɑːk /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Vac stands.

Vac 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.

Vacs before her.

Real people
Vac
Vedic speech goddess.
In fiction
Vac
Rig Veda 10.125 Devi-sukta.

Names connected to Vac.

The number behind Vac.

8

The Visionary

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