Anugraha

Classical Sanskrit origin

अनुग्रह (anugraha): favour, kindness, showing favour, conferring benefits, promoting or furthering a good object.

Source: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), a public-domain scholarly reference — not every popular name today traces to a classical dictionary entry, so this section only appears where a verified match exists.

Traditional associations

In Hindu tradition, names are sometimes chosen by the baby's rashi (moon sign) or nakshatra (birth star). This is cultural tradition, not a rule. Traditional rashi (by first letter, as commonly listed in this corpus) — not a personalized astrological reading, and not the same as the traditional first-syllable (akshara) method some families use.

• Rashi: Mesh
• Nakshatra: Krittika
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Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “favour, kindness, showing favour, conferring benefits, promoting or furthering a good object”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Krupal — Meanings families give: Merciful, kind, compassionate; Compassionate, showing grace
• Ekant — directed towards or devoted to only one object or person
• Anushka — Meanings families give: Grace, favour, lightning bolt of Indra; Grace, favour, lightning; Grace, favor; a form of Anusree; Favoured by God, grace
• Anitha — Meanings families give: Grace, favour; Grace, gracious, favour; Graceful, charming, kind
• Yashoda — conferring fame or renown
• Yasoda — conferring fame or renown

More girls' names of Sanskrit-Malayalam origin

• Anusha — Star, following, after dawn
• Ankitha — Marked, distinguished, signed
• Aswathy — First nakshatra, Ashwini star
• Chinmayi — Full of knowledge, blissful, divine consciousness
• Nandana — daughter
• Saranya — Surrendered to God, refugee, sheltered

Other names under Mesh rashi

• Aarav — Meanings families give: Peaceful, calm; Peaceful, calm, wise; Peaceful sound, wisdom; Calm, peaceful
• Aradhya — Worthy of worship
• Arjun — Meanings families give: Bright, shining, white; Bright, shining, the Pandava hero; Bright, shining, white, the Pandava hero; Bright, silver, the third Pandava; Bright, shining like silver and pure; Bright, shining, silver
• Aryan — Noble, of high birth
• Aadya — First, Goddess Durga
• Aarohi — Meanings families give: Musical ascending notes; Ascending musical note, progressing; Musical note; ascending; Musical note, ascending

Traditional association, recorded because families use it when choosing — see all Mesh names.

Where this comes from

Anugraha's etymology is verified against Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899). Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.