Purva Phalguni पूर्व फाल्गुनी · pada 1 of 4
Purva Phalguni Pada 1 Baby Names — Mo (मो)
6 names with meanings for a child born with the Moon between Leo 13°20′ – 16°40′ — the first quarter of Purva Phalguni, whose syllable is Mo. Moon sign Leo, navamsa Leo.
- Pada
- first of four · Purva Phalguni is nakshatra 11 of 27
- Naming syllable
- Mo मो
- Span
- Leo 13°20′ – 16°40′ · 133°20′ – 136°40′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Leo (Simha)
- Navamsa
- Leo (Simha) — the 1st navamsa from Leo · vargottama
- Names listed
- 3 boys' names, 3 girls' names
- Position in Leo
- the fifth of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Venus · presiding deity Bhaga · symbol Front of bed
Names beginning Mo for Purva Phalguni pada 1
Mo is what the first quarter of Purva Phalguni is assigned, and to no other pada of the 108. Any of the names below satisfies the rite for a birth between Leo 13°20′ – 16°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 |
|---|---|
| Mohit | enchanted |
| Moksh | liberation |
| Mohan | charming — a name of Krishna |
Girls' names — 3
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Mohini | the enchantress — Vishnu's female form |
| Moksha | liberation |
| Mohana | charming |
Where the Leo naming letters come from
A panchang prints nine syllables against Leo — Ma Mi Mu Me Mo Ta Ti Tu Te — 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.
Purva Phalguni pada 1 is the fifth of the nine, contributing Mo at 133°20′ – 136°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 Leo birth, so a family working from the list alone has nine usable syllables, while a pandit working from a birth time narrows it to the one this pada owns.
| # | Syllable | From | Names listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ma मा | Magha pada 1 | 10 |
| 2 | Mi मी | Magha pada 2 | 5 |
| 3 | Mu मू | Magha pada 3 | 8 |
| 4 | Me मे | Magha pada 4 | 5 |
| 5 | Mo मो | Purva Phalguni pada 1 — this pada | 6 |
| 6 | Ta टा / ता | Purva Phalguni pada 2 | 8 |
| 7 | Ti टी / ती | Purva Phalguni pada 3 | 4 |
| 8 | Tu टू / तू | Purva Phalguni pada 4 | 5 |
| 9 | Te टे | Uttara Phalguni pada 1 | 3 |
The other three padas of Purva Phalguni
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the first quarter of Purva Phalguni occupies Leo 13°20′ – 16°40′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Purva Phalguni itself: Venus as lord, Bhaga as presiding deity, the front of bed as symbol, and a character read as pleasure-loving, generous, social. What separates them is the navamsa and the naming syllable, which is Mo for pada 1 and Ta, Ti and Tu for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 — this page | Mo मो | Leo | Leo | 6 |
| Pada 2 | Ta टा / ता | Leo | Virgo | 8 |
| Pada 3 | Ti टी / ती | Leo | Libra | 4 |
| Pada 4 | Tu टू / तू | Leo | Scorpio | 5 |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Purva Phalguni profile, are on the Purva Phalguni 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 Purva Phalguni pada 1 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Purva Phalguni pada 1 — common questions
What letter should a Purva Phalguni pada 1 baby's name start with?
Mo, in Devanagari मो. That syllable belongs to the first pada of Purva Phalguni specifically, not to the whole nakshatra: each of the four padas carries a different one, and Purva Phalguni's other three are Ta for pada 2, Ti for pada 3 and Tu for pada 4.
How many names begin with Mo?
6 names, 3 for boys and 3 for girls, each with its meaning — that is what Mo carries, and so what the first pada of Purva Phalguni 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 Purva Phalguni pada 1 gets what Mo actually begins.
Which rashi is Purva Phalguni pada 1?
Leo — Simha, entered at 133°20′ – 136°40′ sidereal longitude. For all four padas: Purva Phalguni sits wholly inside Leo, so unlike the nine straddling nakshatras it has one Moon sign regardless of pada. What pada 1 adds is its place in the sign — fifth of the nine Leo syllables, Mo.
Are all nine Leo naming syllables different sounds?
Yes — Leo is one of the eleven signs whose nine padas give nine distinct spellings, so the syllable Mo is not duplicated anywhere else in Ma Mi Mu Me Mo Ta Ti Tu Te. 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 Leo, Purva Phalguni pada 1 owns Mo outright.
Does the navamsa change the name for Purva Phalguni pada 1?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Purva Phalguni pada 1 it is Mo. The navamsa — Leo here, the 1st navamsa counted from Leo — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter. This pada is vargottama: Leo in the rashi chart and Leo again in the navamsa, which is traditionally read as the sign's qualities doubling.
Naming a Purva Phalguni 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.