Revati रेवती · pada 2 of 4
Revati Pada 2 Baby Names — Do (डो / दो)
1 name with meanings for a child born with the Moon between Pisces 20°00′ – 23°20′ — the second quarter of Revati, whose syllable is Do. Moon sign Pisces, navamsa Capricorn.
- Pada
- second of four · Revati is nakshatra 27 of 27
- Naming syllable
- Do डो / दो
- Span
- Pisces 20°00′ – 23°20′ · 350°00′ – 353°20′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Pisces (Meena)
- Navamsa
- Capricorn (Makara) — the 11th navamsa from Pisces
- Names listed
- 0 boys' names, 1 girl's name
- Position in Pisces
- the seventh of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Mercury · presiding deity Pushan · symbol Fish
Names beginning Do for Revati pada 2
This syllable falls twice — Ashlesha's fourth pada (डो) and Revati's second (दो) — and neither has an established Sanskrit name. Dolly and Dorathi, which the lists print, are English. Bengali families use Doyel, the magpie robin.
Do is what the second quarter of Revati is assigned — and it is assigned to Ashlesha pada 4 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 Pisces 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.
Girls' names — 1
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Doyel | the magpie robin, in Bengali |
There is no established boy's name beginning Do in common use, so for a son born in Revati pada 2 the three substitutes below apply exactly as they would for an empty pada. This is commoner than the printed lists suggest — 6 of the 108 padas carry boys’ names only and 7 carry girls’ names only.
Where the Pisces naming letters come from
A panchang prints nine syllables against Pisces — Di Du Tha Jha Tra De Do Cha Chi — 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.
Revati pada 2 is the seventh of the nine, contributing Do at 350°00′ – 353°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 Pisces 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 | Di दि | Purva Bhadrapada pada 4 | 9 |
| 2 | Du दू | Uttara Bhadrapada pada 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Tha ठ / थ | Uttara Bhadrapada pada 2 | none |
| 4 | Jha झ | Uttara Bhadrapada pada 3 | 2 |
| 5 | Tra ञ | Uttara Bhadrapada pada 4 | 7 |
| 6 | De दे | Revati pada 1 | 10 |
| 7 | Do डो / दो | Revati pada 2 — this pada | 1 |
| 8 | Cha च | Revati pada 3 | 8 |
| 9 | Chi ची | Revati pada 4 | 6 |
The three substitutes, for Revati pada 2
The 108 syllables come from dividing the zodiac rather than from asking what Sanskrit allows at the start of a word, so some land on sounds that begin few names or none. Where that happens the tradition substitutes, and three routes are recognised. Below, each is carried out for this pada rather than stated as a rule.
1 · Another pada of Revati
Another pada of the same nakshatra. The pada fixes the syllable, but the nakshatra as a whole is what the naming rite is built on, and using a sibling pada's syllable is the commonest accommodation. For Revati that means pada 1, whose syllable De carries 10 names, pada 3, whose syllable Cha carries 8 names and pada 4, whose syllable Chi carries 6 names. A pandit will usually offer this first, because the naming rite is built on the nakshatra and all four padas belong to it.
2 · Another syllable of Pisces
Any syllable of the same Moon sign. Each rashi covers either two and a quarter nakshatras or nine padas, so this widens the choice to roughly nine syllables. Pisces holds nine pada syllables and seven of the other eight carry names, so a Revati pada 2 birth has no shortage of options inside its own Moon sign. The fullest are De (Revati pada 1), Di (Purva Bhadrapada pada 4) and Cha (Revati pada 3) — 10 names apiece or close to it.
3 · A name of Pushan
A name of the nakshatra's presiding deity, which sidesteps the syllable question altogether — Rudra for Ardra, Indra for Jyeshtha, Vishnu for Shravana. Revati is presided over by Pushan, so this route is open regardless of what Do does or does not begin, and it is the one families choose when they want the nakshatra named in the child rather than merely encoded in a sound. None of the three is treated as a lesser choice.
The other three padas of Revati
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the second quarter of Revati occupies Pisces 20°00′ – 23°20′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Revati itself: Mercury as lord, Pushan as presiding deity, the fish as symbol, and a character read as nurturing, journeying, compassionate. What separates them is the navamsa and the naming syllable, which is Do for pada 2 and De, Cha and Chi for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 | De दे | Pisces | Sagittarius | 10 |
| Pada 2 — this page | Do डो / दो | Pisces | Capricorn | 1 |
| Pada 3 | Cha च | Pisces | Aquarius | 8 |
| Pada 4 | Chi ची | Pisces | Pisces | 6 |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Revati profile, are on the Revati 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 Revati pada 2 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Revati pada 2 — common questions
What letter should a Revati pada 2 baby's name start with?
Do, in Devanagari डो / दो. That syllable belongs to the second pada of Revati specifically, not to the whole nakshatra: each of the four padas carries a different one, and Revati's other three are De for pada 1, Cha for pada 3 and Chi for pada 4.
How many names begin with Do?
1 name, 0 for boys and 1 for a girl, each with its meaning — that is what Do carries, and so what the second pada of Revati 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 Revati pada 2 gets what Do actually begins. There is no established boy's name beginning Do, so the substitutes below apply for a son.
Which rashi is Revati pada 2?
Pisces — Meena, entered at 350°00′ – 353°20′ sidereal longitude. For all four padas: Revati sits wholly inside Pisces, 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 Pisces syllables, Do.
Are all nine Pisces naming syllables different sounds?
Yes — Pisces is one of the eleven signs whose nine padas give nine distinct spellings, so the syllable Do is not duplicated anywhere else in Di Du Tha Jha Tra De Do Cha Chi. 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 Pisces, Revati pada 2 owns Do outright.
Does the navamsa change the name for Revati pada 2?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Revati pada 2 it is Do. The navamsa — Capricorn here, the 11th navamsa counted from Pisces — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter.
Naming a Revati 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.