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Shravana nakshatra baby names
4 traditional boys' and girls' names with meanings, arranged by the four pada syllables.
Pada 1: Ju · Pada 2: Je · Pada 3: Jo · Pada 4: Gha
How the Shravana Naming Syllable Is Chosen
At the namakarana, the rite of naming held traditionally on the eleventh or twelfth day, the child’s ritual name begins with a syllable fixed by the Moon’s position at birth. The Moon’s path is divided into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′ each, and each nakshatra into four padas of 3°20′. That gives 108 padas and 108 syllables — one for each, and the same 108 that make up the four-times-27 grid printed in every panchang.
The syllable belongs to the pada, not to the nakshatra. Shravana covers Capricorn 10°00′ – 23°20′, and the Moon crosses one pada of it in a little under six hours, so two children born in Shravana on the same day can carry different syllables. This is the reason a birth time and place are needed and a date alone is not enough — any tool that gives you a syllable from the date is guessing.
27 nakshatras × 4 padas = 108 = 12 signs × 9 navamsas, which is why each pada also falls in its own navamsa sign. Those signs are listed against each pada below.
The Four Padas of Shravana
| Pada | Syllable | Navamsa sign | Names listed | Rashi & substitutes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ju जु | Aries | 2 | Pada 1 details |
| 2 | Je जे | Taurus | none in common use | Pada 2 details |
| 3 | Jo जो | Gemini | none in common use | Pada 3 details |
| 4 | Gha घ | Cancer | 2 | Pada 4 details |
The four name lists are all on this page, in full, below. Each pada also has its own page, which carries what is specific to that quarter rather than to Shravana: the exact degrees it spans, the Moon sign it falls in, and the nine-syllable rashi list that Shravana pada syllable belongs to — the list a panchang prints against a sign, which turns out to be the nine pada syllables inside it.
Not sure which pada? 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 nakshatra finder gives the nakshatra and pada together.
Shravana Pada 1 — Names Beginning With Ju (जु)
Navamsa sign Aries · 1 boys' and 1 girls' names
Boys' names — 1
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Jugal | a pair — Jugal Kishore, a name of Krishna |
Girls' names — 1
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Juhi | the jasmine flower |
Shravana Pada 2 — Names Beginning With Je (जे)
Navamsa sign Taurus · no established names begin with this syllable
Empty. Jeevan and Jeevika begin with जी and belong to Uttara Ashadha's fourth pada.
Shravana Pada 3 — Names Beginning With Jo (जो)
Navamsa sign Gemini · no established names begin with this syllable
Empty in Sanskrit. Bengali families use Jogesh, the regional form of Yogesh, and Joyeeta, the regional form of Jayita.
Shravana Pada 4 — Names Beginning With Gha (घ)
Navamsa sign Cancer · 2 boys' and 0 girls' names
घ is a thin initial. Ghanshyam carries most of it, and there is no established girl's name — Ghazal, sometimes listed here, is an Urdu poetic form used as a name rather than a Sanskrit one.
Boys' names — 2
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Ghanshyam | dark as a raincloud — Krishna |
| Ghatotkacha | Bhima's son in the Mahabharata |
There is no established girl's name beginning with Gha in common use. The three traditional substitutes below apply.
When a Pada Syllable Has No Name
The 108 syllables are produced by dividing the zodiac, not by asking what Sanskrit allows at the beginning of a word, so some of them land on sounds that begin few names or none — the retroflex stops ट, ठ, ड, ढ and ण begin almost no inherited Sanskrit word, and ङ and ञ cannot begin one at all. Where that happens the tradition does not improvise a name; it substitutes, and three substitutions are recognised:
- 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.
- 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.
- A name of the nakshatra's presiding deity, which sidesteps the syllable question altogether — Rudra for Ardra, Indra for Jyeshtha, Vishnu for Shravana.
For Shravana the third route gives names of Vishnu, the presiding deity. All three are in ordinary use and none is considered a compromise — a pandit will usually offer the sibling pada first.
What Shravana Says About the Child
An ear, presided over by Vishnu, ruled by the Moon. Shravana is the listening nakshatra, and in a tradition transmitted orally that makes it the nakshatra of learning itself. These natives absorb through hearing, remember conversations verbatim, and connect people who ought to know each other. Shravana produces the best interviewers, teachers and counsellors of the twenty-seven.
Lord Moon · presiding deity Vishnu · symbol Ear · Deva gana. The full profile — padas, career indications, Kundli Milan values and remedies — is on the Shravana nakshatra page.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Not Sure Which Pada?
The pada is set by the Moon’s exact longitude at birth, so it takes the time and place as well as the date. A free kundli gives the nakshatra, the pada and the syllable together.
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