Is Raka a name from Hindu mythology?

Yes — Raka appears in the Rāmāyaṇa: Daughter of Sumali and Ketumati.

Raka

Q: What does the name Raka mean?

Raka means "(Uṇ. iii, 40) the goddess presiding over the actual day of full moon (or regarded as the Full Moon's consort; Anumati is supposed to preside over the previous day)". It is a girl's name of Bengali origin.

Q: What is the classical Sanskrit origin of Raka?

राका (rākā): (Uṇ. iii, 40) the goddess presiding over the actual day of full moon (or regarded as the Full Moon's consort; Anumati is supposed to preside over the previous day), per the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).

Raka means (Uṇ. iii, 40) the goddess presiding over the actual day of full moon (or regarded as the Full Moon's consort; Anumati is supposed to preside over the previous day).

Meaning: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).

Gender	girl
Origin	Bengali
Language	Bengali
Starts with	R

Classical Sanskrit origin

राका (rākā): (Uṇ. iii, 40) the goddess presiding over the actual day of full moon (or regarded as the Full Moon's consort; Anumati is supposed to preside over the previous day).

Source: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), a public-domain scholarly reference — not every popular name today traces to a classical dictionary entry, so this section only appears where a verified match exists.

In the epics

Raka appears in the Rāmāyaṇa as a demon: Daughter of Sumali and Ketumati.

Source: Drimigo Scripture KG (CC BY 4.0). Many characters share a name across the epics — this is one notable figure who bore it, not a claim about the name's only meaning.

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “(Uṇ. iii, 40) the goddess presiding over the actual day of full moon (or regarded as the Full Moon's consort; Anumati is supposed to preside over the previous day)”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Jagannath — Meanings families give: Lord of the universe, presiding deity of Puri; Lord of the universe, master of all
Yatharth — Meanings families give: Reality, truth and what is actual; Reality, truth, actual
Varuni — Varuṇa's female Energy (personified either as his wife or as his daughter, produced at the churning of the ocean and regarded as the goddess of spirituous liquor)
Mandara — (in some meanings also written ) the coral tree, Erythrina Indica (also regarded as one of the 5 trees of paradise or Svarga)
Suryakanta — ‘sun-loved’, the sun-stone, sun-crystal (a kind of crystal supposed to possess fabulous properties as giving out heat when exposed to the sun; there is a corresponding moonstone See -; also -)
Suryakant — ‘sun-loved’, the sun-stone, sun-crystal (a kind of crystal supposed to possess fabulous properties as giving out heat when exposed to the sun; there is a corresponding moonstone See -; also -)

More girls' names of Bengali origin

Shiuli — Night jasmine flower; fragrant autumn bloom
Oishee — Divine, of God; belonging to the divine
Doyel — The Oriental Magpie Robin; national bird of Bangladesh
Brishti — Rain; the blessed monsoon rains
Mili — To meet, to unite
Reeya — Singer; one with a melodious voice

Where this comes from

Raka's etymology is verified against Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899). Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.