Entry № 11079 · Sanskrit origin

Vak Vak — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

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

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

Vak (वाक्) is the Sanskrit word for "speech, sacred utterance" — root of the English "voice." The Vedic Rishika Vak Ambhrini composed Rigveda 10.125 — the Devi Sukta, one of the most powerful self-declarations in the Vedas: "I move with the Rudras, the Vasus, the Adityas; I support the heavens; I am she who blows like the wind." Identified with the goddess herself — the deification of Speech as Sarasvati's predecessor.

Featured in Rigveda 10.125 (Devi Sukta).

Speech (Vedic goddess of sacred sound) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

वाक्
Transliteration
Vāk
Pronunciation
/ vɑːk /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Vak stands.

Vak 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.

Vaks before her.

Real people
Vak Ambhrini
Vedic Rishika of the Devi Sukta.
In fiction
Vak
Devi Sukta, Rigveda 10.125.

Names connected to Vak.

The number behind Vak.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vak reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.