Pacha as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Pacha

What is the meaning of the name Pacha ?

The baby name Pacha is a girl name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced PAH-chah.

Pacha is Quechua in Origin.

Pacha is taken from Quechua pacha, a root noun attested in early colonial Quechua vocabularies in the form pacha. Its semantic range is broader than English earth: in Andean thought it denotes the world, land, place, time, or an ordered sphere of existence. The same element appears in compounds such as Pachamama, earth-mother, and pachakuti, a turning of the world or age.

As a personal name, Pacha is best understood as a modern use of an Andean cultural term rather than a documented Inca given-name tradition. The word is central in Quechua-speaking regions of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and neighboring areas, especially in religious language surrounding Pachamama. In the United States it appears only sporadically in birth data, with recorded use mainly for girls in the early twenty-first century.