Ashwini अश्विनी · pada 2 of 4
Ashwini Pada 2 Baby Names — Che (चे)
5 names with meanings for a child born with the Moon between Aries 3°20′ – 6°40′ — the second quarter of Ashwini, whose syllable is Che. Moon sign Aries, navamsa Taurus.
- Pada
- second of four · Ashwini is nakshatra 1 of 27
- Naming syllable
- Che चे
- Span
- Aries 3°20′ – 6°40′ · 3°20′ – 6°40′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Aries (Mesha)
- Navamsa
- Taurus (Vrishabha) — the 2nd navamsa from Aries
- Names listed
- 3 boys' names, 2 girls' names
- Position in Aries
- the second of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Ketu · presiding deity Ashwini Kumaras · symbol Horse's head
Names beginning Che for Ashwini pada 2
Che is what the second quarter of Ashwini is assigned, and to no other pada of the 108. Any of the names below satisfies the rite for a birth between Aries 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 — 3
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Chetan | consciousness, awake |
| Chetak | alert — also Maharana Pratap's horse |
| Chetas | the mind, the faculty of awareness |
Girls' names — 2
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Chetna | awareness, consciousness |
| Cheshta | effort, endeavour |
Where the Aries naming letters come from
A panchang prints nine syllables against Aries — Chu Che Cho La Li Lu Le Lo A — 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.
Ashwini pada 2 is the second of the nine, contributing Che at 3°20′ – 6°40′ sidereal. That is worth knowing if a family has been given the rashi list rather than the pada: any of the nine satisfies an Aries birth, so a family working from the list alone has eight usable syllables, while a pandit working from a birth time narrows it to the one this pada owns.
| # | Syllable | From | Names listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chu चु | Ashwini pada 1 | 2 |
| 2 | Che चे | Ashwini pada 2 — this pada | 5 |
| 3 | Cho चो | Ashwini pada 3 | none |
| 4 | La ला | Ashwini pada 4 | 10 |
| 5 | Li ली | Bharani pada 1 | 6 |
| 6 | Lu लु | Bharani pada 2 | 1 |
| 7 | Le ले | Bharani pada 3 | 3 |
| 8 | Lo लो | Bharani pada 4 | 6 |
| 9 | A अ | Krittika pada 1 | 14 |
The other three padas of Ashwini
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the second quarter of Ashwini occupies Aries 3°20′ – 6°40′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Ashwini itself: Ketu as lord, Ashwini Kumaras as presiding deity, the horse's head as symbol, and a character read as swift, healing, pioneering. What separates them is the navamsa and the naming syllable, which is Che for pada 2 and Chu, Cho and La for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 | Chu चु | Aries | Aries | 2 |
| Pada 2 — this page | Che चे | Aries | Taurus | 5 |
| Pada 3 | Cho चो | Aries | Gemini | none |
| Pada 4 | La ला | Aries | Cancer | 10 |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Ashwini profile, are on the Ashwini 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 Ashwini pada 2 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Ashwini pada 2 — common questions
What letter should an Ashwini pada 2 baby's name start with?
Che, in Devanagari चे. That syllable belongs to the second pada of Ashwini specifically, not to the whole nakshatra: each of the four padas carries a different one, and Ashwini's other three are Chu for pada 1, Cho for pada 3 and La for pada 4.
How many names begin with Che?
5 names, 3 for boys and 2 for girls, each with its meaning — that is what Che carries, and so what the second pada of Ashwini 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 Ashwini pada 2 gets what Che actually begins.
Which rashi is Ashwini pada 2?
Aries — Mesha, entered at 3°20′ – 6°40′ sidereal longitude. For all four padas: Ashwini sits wholly inside Aries, so unlike the nine straddling nakshatras it has one Moon sign regardless of pada. What pada 2 adds is its place in the sign — second of the nine Aries syllables, Che.
Are all nine Aries naming syllables different sounds?
Yes — Aries is one of the eleven signs whose nine padas give nine distinct spellings, so the syllable Che is not duplicated anywhere else in Chu Che Cho La Li Lu Le Lo A. 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 Aries, Ashwini pada 2 owns Che outright.
Does the navamsa change the name for Ashwini pada 2?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Ashwini pada 2 it is Che. The navamsa — Taurus here, the 2nd navamsa counted from Aries — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter.
Naming an Ashwini pada 2 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.