Ardra

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: Mithun
• Nakshatra: Ardra
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Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Moist, soft, sixth nakshatra”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Parashuram — Rama with the axe, sixth avatar of Vishnu
• Aswathy — First nakshatra, Ashwini star
• Swati — Meanings families give: A star, the fifteenth nakshatra; A star, pearl, independent; A star; the 15th nakshatra
• Revathi — Meanings families give: Star Revati, prosperous; Prosperity, wealthy, last nakshatra; Prosperous, the last star, Apsara; A star, prosperity, wealth
• Ashwini — Meanings families give: Star cluster, horse woman, swift; First nakshatra, horse tamer; Possessed of horses, first nakshatra; First nakshatra, swift as a horse
• Uththara — North star, Uttara nakshatra, later

More girls' names of Sanskrit-Malayalam origin

• Anusha — Star, following, after dawn
• Ankitha — Marked, distinguished, signed
• Chinmayi — Full of knowledge, blissful, divine consciousness
• Nandana — daughter
• Saranya — Surrendered to God, refugee, sheltered
• Anugraha — favour, kindness, showing favour, conferring benefits, promoting or furthering a good object

Other names under Mithun rashi

• Diya — Meanings families give: Lamp, light; Lamp, divine light
• Krish — Meanings families give: Lord Krishna; Short form of Krishna, dark, attractive
• Yash — Meanings families give: Glory, fame; Fame, glory, success, celebrity; Fame, glory, success; Success, glory, fame
• Kavya — a poem, poetical composition with a coherent plot by a single author (opposed to an Itihāsa)
• Dev — God, divine being
• Jiya — Meanings families give: Sweetheart, piece of heart; Heart, sweetheart

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

Where this comes from

Ardra has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. 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.