Anuradha अनुराधा · pada 1 of 4
Anuradha Pada 1 Baby Names — Na (ण / न)
8 names with meanings for a child born with the Moon between Scorpio 3°20′ – 6°40′ — the first quarter of Anuradha, whose syllable is Na. Moon sign Scorpio, navamsa Leo.
- Pada
- first of four · Anuradha is nakshatra 17 of 27
- Naming syllable
- Na ण / न
- Span
- Scorpio 3°20′ – 6°40′ · 213°20′ – 216°40′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Scorpio (Vrishchika)
- Navamsa
- Leo (Simha) — the 10th navamsa from Scorpio
- Names listed
- 4 boys' names, 4 girls' names
- Position in Scorpio
- the second of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Saturn · presiding deity Mitra · symbol Lotus
Names beginning Na for Anuradha pada 1
Hasta's third pada is the retroflex ण, which cannot begin a word in Sanskrit; Anuradha's first pada is the dental न. The same न names serve both, which is why they appear twice in printed tables.
Na is what the first quarter of Anuradha is assigned — and it is assigned to Hasta pada 3 as well, so that page lists the same names from a different point in the zodiac. Any of the names below satisfies the rite for a birth between Scorpio 3°20′ – 6°40′, and the meaning matters as much as the sound: a name is used for a lifetime and the gloss is the part a child will be told.
Boys' names — 4
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Nakul | a mongoose — the fourth Pandava |
| Naman | salutation, bowing |
| Naveen | new |
| Narayan | the resting place of man — Vishnu |
Girls' names — 4
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Navya | new |
| Nalini | a lotus |
| Namita | bowed, humble |
| Nandini | joy-giving — also a daughter |
Where the Scorpio naming letters come from
A panchang prints nine syllables against Scorpio — To Na Ni Nu Ne No Ya Yi Yu — usually with no explanation of why there are nine. They are the pada syllables that fall inside the sign. There are 108 padas and twelve signs, 108 divides by twelve exactly, and so every sign holds precisely nine padas with nothing left over. The rashi list and the pada syllable are not two competing traditions; the first is the second, collected by sign.
Anuradha pada 1 is the second of the nine, contributing Na at 213°20′ – 216°40′ sidereal. That is worth knowing if a family has been given the rashi list rather than the pada: any of the nine satisfies a Scorpio birth, so a family working from the list alone has seven usable syllables, while a pandit working from a birth time narrows it to the one this pada owns.
| # | Syllable | From | Names listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To टो / तो | Vishakha pada 4 | 3 |
| 2 | Na ण / न | Anuradha pada 1 — this pada | 8 |
| 3 | Ni नी | Anuradha pada 2 | 10 |
| 4 | Nu नू | Anuradha pada 3 | 2 |
| 5 | Ne ने | Anuradha pada 4 | 3 |
| 6 | No नो | Jyeshtha pada 1 | none |
| 7 | Ya या | Jyeshtha pada 2 | 6 |
| 8 | Yi यी | Jyeshtha pada 3 | none |
| 9 | Yu यु | Jyeshtha pada 4 | 5 |
The other three padas of Anuradha
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the first quarter of Anuradha occupies Scorpio 3°20′ – 6°40′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Anuradha itself: Saturn as lord, Mitra as presiding deity, the lotus as symbol, and a character read as devoted, friendly, balanced. What separates them is the navamsa and the naming syllable, which is Na for pada 1 and Ni, Nu and Ne for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 — this page | Na ण / न | Scorpio | Leo | 8 |
| Pada 2 | Ni नी | Scorpio | Virgo | 10 |
| Pada 3 | Nu नू | Scorpio | Libra | 2 |
| Pada 4 | Ne ने | Scorpio | Scorpio | 3 |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Anuradha profile, are on the Anuradha baby names page. The pada follows from the Moon’s exact longitude, so it needs the time and place of birth — the baby name finder resolves it from a birth date, and the Anuradha pada 1 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Anuradha pada 1 — common questions
What letter should an Anuradha pada 1 baby's name start with?
Na, in Devanagari ण / न. That syllable belongs to the first pada of Anuradha specifically, not to the whole nakshatra: each of the four padas carries a different one, and Anuradha's other three are Ni for pada 2, Nu for pada 3 and Ne for pada 4.
How many names begin with Na?
8 names, 4 for boys and 4 for girls, each with its meaning — that is what Na carries, and so what the first pada of Anuradha offers. The count is uneven across the 108 padas by nature: the syllables come from dividing the zodiac, not from asking what Sanskrit allows at the start of a word, so Anuradha pada 1 gets what Na actually begins.
Which rashi is Anuradha pada 1?
Scorpio — Vrishchika, entered at 213°20′ – 216°40′ sidereal longitude. For all four padas: Anuradha sits wholly inside Scorpio, so unlike the nine straddling nakshatras it has one Moon sign regardless of pada. What pada 1 adds is its place in the sign — second of the nine Scorpio syllables, Na.
Are all nine Scorpio naming syllables different sounds?
Yes — Scorpio is one of the eleven signs whose nine padas give nine distinct spellings, so the syllable Na is not duplicated anywhere else in To Na Ni Nu Ne No Ya Yi Yu. That is not true of every sign: Sagittarius carries Dha twice, for the dental and retroflex forms, and yields eight spellings from its nine padas. Within Scorpio, Anuradha pada 1 owns Na outright.
Does the navamsa change the name for Anuradha pada 1?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Anuradha pada 1 it is Na. The navamsa — Leo here, the 10th navamsa counted from Scorpio — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter.
Naming an Anuradha pada 1 child?
The syllable is fixed by the pada, but the namakaran itself is fixed by the chart and by the day — which is a reading rather than a table. Our pandits do both.