Uttara Phalguni उत्तर फाल्गुनी · pada 1 of 4
Uttara Phalguni Pada 1 Baby Names — Te (टे)
3 names with meanings for a child born with the Moon between Leo 26°40′ – 30°00′ — the first quarter of Uttara Phalguni, whose syllable is Te. Moon sign Leo, navamsa Sagittarius.
- Pada
- first of four · Uttara Phalguni is nakshatra 12 of 27
- Naming syllable
- Te टे — written Tay in a panchang table
- Span
- Leo 26°40′ – 30°00′ · 146°40′ – 150°00′ sidereal
- Moon sign
- Leo (Simha) — this nakshatra straddles a boundary, so the pada decides it
- Navamsa
- Sagittarius (Dhanu) — the 5th navamsa from Leo
- Names listed
- 1 boy's name, 2 girls' names
- Position in Leo
- the ninth of the sign’s nine pada syllables
- Nakshatra lord
- Sun · presiding deity Aryaman · symbol Back of bed
Names beginning Te for Uttara Phalguni pada 1
Retroflex टे, which begins no established Sanskrit name; the dental ते names below are what is used.
Nothing is lost in that substitution and nothing about it is a compromise: it is what panchang tables print and what pandits use, so Te is the syllable a family naming an Uttara Phalguni pada 1 child is actually given. The retroflex form survives in the tables because the pada boundary is a fact about the zodiac, and the dental names beneath it because the boundary has to be spoken.
Te is what the first quarter of Uttara Phalguni is assigned — and it is assigned to Vishakha pada 3 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 Leo 26°40′ – 30°00′, 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 |
|---|---|
| Tejas | radiance, brilliance |
Girls' names — 2
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Tejasvi | radiant, full of brilliance |
| Tejal | radiant, in Gujarati |
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.
Uttara Phalguni pada 1 is the ninth of the nine, contributing Te at 146°40′ – 150°00′ 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 | 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 — this pada | 3 |
Uttara Phalguni crosses a sign boundary, so the pada decides the rashi
A nakshatra is 13°20′ and a sign is 30°, and neither divides the other, so nine of the 27 nakshatras have their padas split between two signs. Uttara Phalguni is one of them: its four padas fall in Leo for pada 1 and Virgo for padas 2 to 4. Pada 1 is in Leo, which is why the nine-syllable list above is Leo’s and not the other sign’s.
The practical consequence is that two children born in Uttara Phalguni a day or two apart can have different Moon signs — and therefore a different rashi letter list, a different monthly rashifal and a different set of substitutes if the syllable turns out to have no names. The nakshatra alone cannot tell you which; the pada can, and the pada needs the time and place of birth.
The other three padas of Uttara Phalguni
A nakshatra is 13°20′ wide and a pada is a quarter of that, 3°20′ — so the first quarter of Uttara Phalguni occupies Leo 26°40′ – 30°00′ and its other three sit either side of it. What the four share is Uttara Phalguni itself: Sun as lord, Aryaman as presiding deity, the back of bed as symbol, and a character read as reliable, kind, marriage-oriented. What separates them is the navamsa, the Moon sign — Uttara Phalguni crosses a boundary — and, the naming syllable, which is Te for pada 1 and To, Pa and Pi for the others.
| Pada | Syllable | Moon sign | Navamsa | Names |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pada 1 — this page | Te टे | Leo | Sagittarius | 3 |
| Pada 2 | To टो / तो | Virgo | Capricorn | 3 |
| Pada 3 | Pa पा | Virgo | Aquarius | 8 |
| Pada 4 | Pi पी | Virgo | Pisces | 3 |
All four listed together, with the full name tables and the Uttara Phalguni profile, are on the Uttara 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 Uttara Phalguni pada 1 page covers what this quarter means beyond the name.
Uttara Phalguni pada 1 — common questions
What letter should an Uttara Phalguni pada 1 baby's name start with?
Te — written Tay in the pronunciation column of a panchang table, in Devanagari टे. That syllable belongs to the first pada of Uttara Phalguni specifically, not to the whole nakshatra: each of the four padas carries a different one, and Uttara Phalguni's other three are To for pada 2, Pa for pada 3 and Pi for pada 4.
How many names begin with Te?
3 names, 1 for a boy and 2 for girls, each with its meaning — that is what Te carries, and so what the first pada of Uttara 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 Uttara Phalguni pada 1 gets what Te actually begins.
Which rashi is Uttara Phalguni pada 1?
Leo — Simha, entered at 146°40′ – 150°00′ sidereal longitude. Only for this pada: Uttara Phalguni is split across two signs, and pada 1 is the one that lands last in Leo, as the ninth of its nine syllables. Ask for the rashi of Uttara Phalguni without naming a pada and there is no single answer — Leo for pada 1 and Virgo for padas 2 to 4.
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 Te 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, Uttara Phalguni pada 1 owns Te outright.
Does the navamsa change the name for Uttara Phalguni pada 1?
Not the syllable. The syllable comes from the pada, and for Uttara Phalguni pada 1 it is Te. The navamsa — Sagittarius here, the 5th navamsa counted from Leo — is read for the child's temperament and for chart work rather than for the naming letter.
Naming an Uttara 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.