Shravana श्रवण · pada 1 of 4
Shravana Pada 1 Baby Names — Ju (जु)
2 names with meanings for a child born with the Moon between Capricorn 10°00′ – 13°20′ — the first quarter of Shravana, whose syllable is Ju. Moon sign Capricorn, navamsa Aries.
- Pada
- first of four · Shravana is nakshatra 22 of 27
- Naming syllable
- Ju जु
- Span
- Capricorn 10°00′ – 13°20′ · 280°00′ – 283°20′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Capricorn (Makara)
- Navamsa
- Aries (Mesha) — the 4th navamsa from Capricorn
- Names listed
- 1 boy's name, 1 girl's name
- Position in Capricorn
- the fourth of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Moon · presiding deity Vishnu · symbol Ear
Names beginning Ju for Shravana pada 1
Ju is what the first quarter of Shravana is assigned, and to no other pada of the 108. Any of the names below satisfies the rite for a birth between Capricorn 10°00′ – 13°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 — 1
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Jugal | a pair — Jugal Kishore, a name of Krishna |
Girls' names — 1
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Juhi | the jasmine flower |
Where the Capricorn naming letters come from
A panchang prints nine syllables against Capricorn — Bho Ja Ji Ju Je Jo Gha Ga Gi — 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.
Shravana pada 1 is the fourth of the nine, contributing Ju at 280°00′ – 283°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 Capricorn 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 | Bho भो | Uttara Ashadha pada 2 | 2 |
| 2 | Ja जा | Uttara Ashadha pada 3 | 8 |
| 3 | Ji जी | Uttara Ashadha pada 4 | 6 |
| 4 | Ju जु | Shravana pada 1 — this pada | 2 |
| 5 | Je जे | Shravana pada 2 | none |
| 6 | Jo जो | Shravana pada 3 | none |
| 7 | Gha घ | Shravana pada 4 | 2 |
| 8 | Ga गा | Dhanishta pada 1 | 8 |
| 9 | Gi गि | Dhanishta pada 2 | 6 |
The other three padas of Shravana
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the first quarter of Shravana occupies Capricorn 10°00′ – 13°20′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Shravana itself: Moon as lord, Vishnu as presiding deity, the ear as symbol, and a character read as listening, learning, connecting. What separates them is the navamsa and the naming syllable, which is Ju for pada 1 and Je, Jo and Gha for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 — this page | Ju जु | Capricorn | Aries | 2 |
| Pada 2 | Je जे | Capricorn | Taurus | none |
| Pada 3 | Jo जो | Capricorn | Gemini | none |
| Pada 4 | Gha घ | Capricorn | Cancer | 2 |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Shravana profile, are on the Shravana 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 Shravana pada 1 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Shravana pada 1 — common questions
What letter should a Shravana pada 1 baby's name start with?
Ju, in Devanagari जु. That syllable belongs to the first pada of Shravana specifically, not to the whole nakshatra: each of the four padas carries a different one, and Shravana's other three are Je for pada 2, Jo for pada 3 and Gha for pada 4.
How many names begin with Ju?
2 names, 1 for a boy and 1 for a girl, each with its meaning — that is what Ju carries, and so what the first pada of Shravana 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 Shravana pada 1 gets what Ju actually begins.
Which rashi is Shravana pada 1?
Capricorn — Makara, entered at 280°00′ – 283°20′ sidereal longitude. For all four padas: Shravana sits wholly inside Capricorn, so unlike the nine straddling nakshatras it has one Moon sign regardless of pada. What pada 1 adds is its place in the sign — fourth of the nine Capricorn syllables, Ju.
Are all nine Capricorn naming syllables different sounds?
Yes — Capricorn is one of the eleven signs whose nine padas give nine distinct spellings, so the syllable Ju is not duplicated anywhere else in Bho Ja Ji Ju Je Jo Gha Ga Gi. 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 Capricorn, Shravana pada 1 owns Ju outright.
Does the navamsa change the name for Shravana pada 1?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Shravana pada 1 it is Ju. The navamsa — Aries here, the 4th navamsa counted from Capricorn — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter.
Naming a Shravana 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.