Krittika कृत्तिका · pada 3 of 4
Krittika Pada 3 Baby Names — U (उ)
10 names with meanings for a child born with the Moon between Taurus 3°20′ – 6°40′ — the third quarter of Krittika, whose syllable is U. Moon sign Taurus, navamsa Aquarius.
- Pada
- third of four · Krittika is nakshatra 3 of 27
- Naming syllable
- U उ
- Span
- Taurus 3°20′ – 6°40′ · 33°20′ – 36°40′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Taurus (Vrishabha) — this nakshatra straddles a boundary, so the pada decides it
- Navamsa
- Aquarius (Kumbha) — the 10th navamsa from Taurus
- Names listed
- 5 boys' names, 5 girls' names
- Position in Taurus
- the second of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Sun · presiding deity Agni · symbol Razor
Names beginning U for Krittika pada 3
U is what the third quarter of Krittika is assigned, and to no other pada of the 108. Any of the names below satisfies the rite for a birth between Taurus 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 — 5
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Uday | rising, sunrise |
| Ujjwal | bright, luminous |
| Utkarsh | advancement, elevation |
| Umang | enthusiasm |
| Utsav | a festival |
Girls' names — 5
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Uma | a name of Parvati |
| Urvi | the earth |
| Urmila | a wave of feeling — Lakshman's wife |
| Uditi | rising |
| Utpala | the blue water lily |
Where the Taurus naming letters come from
A panchang prints nine syllables against Taurus — I U E O Va Vi Vu Ve Vo — 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.
Krittika pada 3 is the second of the nine, contributing U at 33°20′ – 36°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 Taurus 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 | I इ | Krittika pada 2 | 9 |
| 2 | U उ | Krittika pada 3 — this pada | 10 |
| 3 | E ए | Krittika pada 4 | 7 |
| 4 | O ओ | Rohini pada 1 | 7 |
| 5 | Va वा | Rohini pada 2 | 10 |
| 6 | Vi वी | Rohini pada 3 | 11 |
| 7 | Vu वु | Rohini pada 4 | none |
| 8 | Ve वे | Mrigashira pada 1 | 8 |
| 9 | Vo वो | Mrigashira pada 2 | none |
Krittika crosses a sign boundary, so the pada decides the rashi
A nakshatra is 13°20′ and a sign is 30°, and neither divides the other, so nine of the 27 nakshatras have their padas split between two signs. Krittika is one of them: its four padas fall in Aries for pada 1 and Taurus for padas 2 to 4. Pada 3 is in Taurus, which is why the nine-syllable list above is Taurus’s and not the other sign’s.
The practical consequence is that two children born in Krittika a day or two apart can have different Moon signs — and therefore a different rashi letter list, a different monthly rashifal and a different set of substitutes if the syllable turns out to have no names. The nakshatra alone cannot tell you which; the pada can, and the pada needs the time and place of birth.
The other three padas of Krittika
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the third quarter of Krittika occupies Taurus 3°20′ – 6°40′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Krittika itself: Sun as lord, Agni as presiding deity, the razor as symbol, and a character read as sharp, purifying, courageous. What separates them is the navamsa, the Moon sign — Krittika crosses a boundary — and, the naming syllable, which is U for pada 3 and A, I and E for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 | A अ | Aries | Sagittarius | 14 |
| Pada 2 | I इ | Taurus | Capricorn | 9 |
| Pada 3 — this page | U उ | Taurus | Aquarius | 10 |
| Pada 4 | E ए | Taurus | Pisces | 7 |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Krittika profile, are on the Krittika 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 Krittika pada 3 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Krittika pada 3 — common questions
What letter should a Krittika pada 3 baby's name start with?
U, in Devanagari उ. That syllable belongs to the third pada of Krittika specifically, not to the whole nakshatra: each of the four padas carries a different one, and Krittika's other three are A for pada 1, I for pada 2 and E for pada 4.
How many names begin with U?
10 names, 5 for boys and 5 for girls, each with its meaning — that is what U carries, and so what the third pada of Krittika 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 Krittika pada 3 gets what U actually begins.
Which rashi is Krittika pada 3?
Taurus — Vrishabha, entered at 33°20′ – 36°40′ sidereal longitude. Only for this pada: Krittika is split across two signs, and pada 3 is the one that lands second in Taurus. Ask for the rashi of Krittika without naming a pada and there is no single answer — Aries for pada 1 and Taurus for padas 2 to 4.
Are all nine Taurus naming syllables different sounds?
Yes — Taurus is one of the eleven signs whose nine padas give nine distinct spellings, so the syllable U is not duplicated anywhere else in I U E O Va Vi Vu Ve Vo. 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 Taurus, Krittika pada 3 owns U outright.
Does the navamsa change the name for Krittika pada 3?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Krittika pada 3 it is U. The navamsa — Aquarius here, the 10th navamsa counted from Taurus — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter.
Naming a Krittika pada 3 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.