Kundli Matching by Name and by Date of Birth: What Each One Can Tell You

Guna milan compares two Moon positions: the nakshatra and pada the Moon was in at each birth. Everything else in an Ashtakoot match is read from those two positions. So the question behind “matching by name” or “matching by date of birth” is always the same one: how well does a name, or a date, pin down where the Moon was? The answer can be counted.

Matching by Name

The tradition assigns each of the 108 padas a starting syllable, and the naming custom picks a child’s name from the syllable of the pada the Moon was in. Matching by name runs that custom backwards: it reads the first syllable of the name and takes the pada it belongs to. Of the 108 syllables, 98 are distinct; 10 are shared between two padas (Gha in Ardra pada 2 and Shravana pada 4, Da in Pushya pada 4 and Purva Bhadrapada pada 3, Do in Ashlesha pada 4 and Revati pada 2 and Ta in Purva Phalguni pada 2 and Swati pada 4, and others), so a name beginning with one of them cannot say which. And no pada begins with F, Q, W, X and Z, so a name starting with those letters gives no pada at all.

The first letter is not enough either. 13 padas begin with T and 12 with D, spread across several nakshatras and signs, which is why the site’s rashi-by-name tool matches the whole syllable and says when it cannot decide. Most of all, a name recovers the Moon only if the name was in fact chosen from the birth syllable; a name chosen any other way says nothing about the Moon, and a match built on it is a match between two guesses.

Matching by Date of Birth Alone

The Moon moves about one nakshatra a day, so a date without a time leaves the Moon’s position open. Computed for every day of 2026 and 2027 in IST, the Moon touched two nakshatras on 678 of the 730 days, three on 22, and only one on 30. By pada it is wider still: it passed through five padas on 526 days, and never fewer than four.

For guna milan that matters a great deal. Taking each day of 2026 with the day 137 days later as two dates of birth, and scoring every pada each Moon could have been in, the lowest and highest possible totals for the pair were a median of 14 guna apart, and more than ten apart for 224 of the 365 pairs; the widest spread was 24. A match computed from two dates alone is one of those totals chosen by an assumed time, and the same two dates could have given any other.

Matching by Date, Time and Place of Birth

With the time, the Moon’s longitude is fixed and so are its nakshatra and pada, which is all the eight kootas need. The place matters for the rest of the chart rather than for the kootas: the ascendant and houses, including the 7th, are counted from the birthplace’s horizon. A time recorded to the nearest hour can still straddle a pada boundary, since the Moon crosses a pada in roughly five to seven hours; where a time is uncertain, the honest reading gives both padas.

What the total then means is on the score pages: every guna milan total, counted, with the kootas each one usually loses. For two known birth stars without times, nakshatra matching prints every pada combination at once, which is the fair way to read a match when the padas are not known.

For the eight kootas themselves, see the 36 gunas explained and the kundli milan guide; for finding a Moon sign from a name, names by nakshatra and rashi. In Hindi: नाम और जन्म तिथि से कुंडली मिलान.