Uttara Bhadrapada उत्तर भाद्रपद · pada 1 of 4
Uttara Bhadrapada Pada 1 Baby Names — Du (दू)
3 names with meanings for a child born with the Moon between Pisces 3°20′ – 6°40′ — the first quarter of Uttara Bhadrapada, whose syllable is Du. Moon sign Pisces, navamsa Leo.
- Pada
- first of four · Uttara Bhadrapada is nakshatra 26 of 27
- Naming syllable
- Du दू
- Span
- Pisces 3°20′ – 6°40′ · 333°20′ – 336°40′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Pisces (Meena)
- Navamsa
- Leo (Simha) — the 6th navamsa from Pisces
- Names listed
- 1 boy's name, 2 girls' names
- Position in Pisces
- the second of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Saturn · presiding deity Ahirbudhnya · symbol Twin
Names beginning Du for Uttara Bhadrapada pada 1
Thin, and one of the two boys' names is an epic king rather than a common choice.
Du is what the first quarter of Uttara Bhadrapada is assigned — and it is assigned to Ashlesha pada 2 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 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 — 1
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Dushyant | the king who married Shakuntala |
Girls' names — 2
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Durga | the unassailable — the goddess |
| Dulari | cherished, in Hindi |
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.
Uttara Bhadrapada pada 1 is the second of the nine, contributing Du at 333°20′ – 336°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 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 — this pada | 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 | 1 |
| 8 | Cha च | Revati pada 3 | 8 |
| 9 | Chi ची | Revati pada 4 | 6 |
The other three padas of Uttara Bhadrapada
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the first quarter of Uttara Bhadrapada occupies Pisces 3°20′ – 6°40′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Uttara Bhadrapada itself: Saturn as lord, Ahirbudhnya as presiding deity, the twin as symbol, and a character read as deep, wise, controlled. What separates them is the navamsa and the naming syllable, which is Du for pada 1 and Tha, Jha and Tra for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 — this page | Du दू | Pisces | Leo | 3 |
| Pada 2 | Tha ठ / थ | Pisces | Virgo | none |
| Pada 3 | Jha झ | Pisces | Libra | 2 |
| Pada 4 | Tra ञ | Pisces | Scorpio | 7 |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Uttara Bhadrapada profile, are on the Uttara Bhadrapada 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 Uttara Bhadrapada pada 1 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Uttara Bhadrapada pada 1 — common questions
What letter should an Uttara Bhadrapada pada 1 baby's name start with?
Du, in Devanagari दू. That syllable belongs to the first pada of Uttara Bhadrapada specifically, not to the whole nakshatra: each of the four padas carries a different one, and Uttara Bhadrapada's other three are Tha for pada 2, Jha for pada 3 and Tra for pada 4.
How many names begin with Du?
3 names, 1 for a boy and 2 for girls, each with its meaning — that is what Du carries, and so what the first pada of Uttara Bhadrapada 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 Uttara Bhadrapada pada 1 gets what Du actually begins.
Which rashi is Uttara Bhadrapada pada 1?
Pisces — Meena, entered at 333°20′ – 336°40′ sidereal longitude. For all four padas: Uttara Bhadrapada sits wholly inside Pisces, so unlike the nine straddling nakshatras it has one Moon sign regardless of pada. What pada 1 adds is its place in the sign — second of the nine Pisces syllables, Du.
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 Du 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, Uttara Bhadrapada pada 1 owns Du outright.
Does the navamsa change the name for Uttara Bhadrapada pada 1?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Uttara Bhadrapada pada 1 it is Du. The navamsa — Leo here, the 6th navamsa counted from Pisces — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter.
Naming an Uttara Bhadrapada 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.