Jyeshtha ज्येष्ठा · pada 2 of 4
Jyeshtha Pada 2 Baby Names — Ya (या)
6 names with meanings for a child born with the Moon between Scorpio 20°00′ – 23°20′ — the second quarter of Jyeshtha, whose syllable is Ya. Moon sign Scorpio, navamsa Capricorn.
- Pada
- second of four · Jyeshtha is nakshatra 18 of 27
- Naming syllable
- Ya या
- Span
- Scorpio 20°00′ – 23°20′ · 230°00′ – 233°20′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Scorpio (Vrishchika)
- Navamsa
- Capricorn (Makara) — the 3rd navamsa from Scorpio
- Names listed
- 3 boys' names, 3 girls' names
- Position in Scorpio
- the seventh of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Mercury · presiding deity Indra · symbol Earring
Names beginning Ya for Jyeshtha pada 2
Ya is what the second quarter of Jyeshtha is assigned, and to no other pada of the 108. Any of the names below satisfies the rite for a birth between Scorpio 20°00′ – 23°20′, 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 |
|---|---|
| Yash | fame, glory |
| Yashvardhan | one who increases fame |
| Yatin | an ascetic, one who strives |
Girls' names — 3
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Yamini | night |
| Yashoda | giver of fame — Krishna's foster mother |
| Yashasvini | glorious |
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.
Jyeshtha pada 2 is the seventh of the nine, contributing Ya at 230°00′ – 233°20′ 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 | 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 — this pada | 6 |
| 8 | Yi यी | Jyeshtha pada 3 | none |
| 9 | Yu यु | Jyeshtha pada 4 | 5 |
The other three padas of Jyeshtha
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the second quarter of Jyeshtha occupies Scorpio 20°00′ – 23°20′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Jyeshtha itself: Mercury as lord, Indra as presiding deity, the earring as symbol, and a character read as senior, protective, courageous. What separates them is the navamsa and the naming syllable, which is Ya for pada 2 and No, Yi and Yu for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 | No नो | Scorpio | Sagittarius | none |
| Pada 2 — this page | Ya या | Scorpio | Capricorn | 6 |
| Pada 3 | Yi यी | Scorpio | Aquarius | none |
| Pada 4 | Yu यु | Scorpio | Pisces | 5 |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Jyeshtha profile, are on the Jyeshtha 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 Jyeshtha pada 2 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Jyeshtha pada 2 — common questions
What letter should a Jyeshtha pada 2 baby's name start with?
Ya, in Devanagari या. That syllable belongs to the second pada of Jyeshtha specifically, not to the whole nakshatra: each of the four padas carries a different one, and Jyeshtha's other three are No for pada 1, Yi for pada 3 and Yu for pada 4.
How many names begin with Ya?
6 names, 3 for boys and 3 for girls, each with its meaning — that is what Ya carries, and so what the second pada of Jyeshtha 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 Jyeshtha pada 2 gets what Ya actually begins.
Which rashi is Jyeshtha pada 2?
Scorpio — Vrishchika, entered at 230°00′ – 233°20′ sidereal longitude. For all four padas: Jyeshtha sits wholly inside Scorpio, so unlike the nine straddling nakshatras it has one Moon sign regardless of pada. What pada 2 adds is its place in the sign — seventh of the nine Scorpio syllables, Ya.
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 Ya 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, Jyeshtha pada 2 owns Ya outright.
Does the navamsa change the name for Jyeshtha pada 2?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Jyeshtha pada 2 it is Ya. The navamsa — Capricorn here, the 3rd navamsa counted from Scorpio — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter.
Naming a Jyeshtha 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.