baby names from nakshatra

What is in a name? Very much if the wit of man could find

it out.

This small article on Jyotish is about selecting name of a

child, mostly a new born baby based on her
birth nakshatra. This is to be used duringnamakarana
samskar, an important ceremony that is performed after
10th day of birth of the baby.

The idea is to find out the birth nakshatra andnakshatra

pada, and name the baby according to the starting letter
specified in the list below.

While using this methodology, there are two problems:

 The starting letters are too vague and most of the

time no good baby names begin with the letter.
E.g., I was born in PurvaFalguni Nakshatra, 2nd
Pada. Hence my name is supposed to begin with
“ta”. One of the names that I could be given was
“Tarzan”. Nope, nothing doing… in the end, good
sense prevailed and my parents did a decent job in
choosing my name.
 The list is so small that it can cause tremendous
amount of duplication.

To find out the starting letter of child’s name, look her

Nakshatra and Nakshatra Pada up on birth chart generator
page. Then come back to this page and look at the list.
The letter to choose corresponds to the Pada. e.g. If
Nakshatra is Purva Falguni, Second Pada, then the starting
letter of the baby name should be “Ta” as it is second in
the list. Similarly, if the Nakshatra is Anuradha, Third
Pada, then the name should begin with “Noo” because it is
third in the list. If you still have some doubt, please add a
comment to this blog, or send me an email at “vedic dot astrology at gmail dot com”.

I have had a lot of visitors to my astrology web site complaining that they are not able to view this list
of starting letter of names in one browser or the other because IE and Firefox are not always able to
display Indic fonts properly. To solve all the problems once and for all, I have generated the list as an
image and have stuck it to this blog.