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Advika
अद्विकाSay it UD-vi-kaa
- Meaning today
- Unique, one of a kind
- In the dictionaries
- Not in the classical dictionaries; most likely a modern name
- Say it
- UD-vi-kaa
- Written
- अद्विका
- Other spellings
- Aadvika, Adwika
- First sound
- अ · Mesh rashi
Advika
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Advika meaning
Advika (अद्विका) is a Hindu girl's name. By its first sound, अ, it is a Mesh rashi name (Krittika nakshatra) in the North Indian table.
Meaning today
Unique, one of a kind
In the dictionaries
The name isn't in the classical dictionaries we use, so it is most likely a modern name. The meaning above is how families commonly use it.
Advika (अद्विका) is a modern Indian girls' name, close in sound to the boys' name Advik. On Indian baby-name lists it is usually explained as "unique" or "one of a kind". We could not find advikā in Monier-Williams' Sanskrit dictionary, so that meaning cannot be traced to a dictionary entry. The gloss does echo real Sanskrit words that begin with a-dvi-, "not two": a-dvitīya, for example, means "without a second, sole, unique, matchless". Whether the name was actually formed from such a word is not recorded anywhere we could check. Families who choose Advika today use it in this sense of someone without an equal, and it is short and easy to say in both Indian languages and English.
References: Monier-Williams, a-dvitīya, p. 19
Fits your syllable
First sound अ
Krittika nakshatra, pada 1 · Mesh rashi
North Indian table. Tables vary by region and family tradition, so confirm with your priest.
Spellings
Advika · Aadvika · Adwika