Arjun
Arjun means 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.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Marathi / Sanskrit-Odia / Sanskrit-Punjabi / Sanskrit-Telugu / Tamil |
| Language | Hindi / Marathi / Odia / Punjabi / Tamil / Telugu |
| Starts with | A |
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: Bharani
- More names starting with A
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “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”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Arjunan — Meanings families give: The bright and fair one; Bright, shining, the Pandava hero
- Trilochan — Meanings families give: Three-eyed one, Lord Shiva with his third divine eye; Three-eyed, Lord Shiva
- Reema — White antelope; silver
- Kailash — Meanings families give: Abode of Shiva, silver mountain; Abode of Shiva, silvery mountain
- Rajat — Silver, shining like silver, bright and lustrous
- Neiyal — A fish, the silver fish
Other names under Mesh rashi
- Aarav — Meanings families give: Peaceful, calm; Peaceful, calm, wise; Peaceful sound, wisdom; Calm, peaceful
- Aradhya — Worthy of worship
- 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
- Aarush — Meanings families give: First ray of sun; First ray of the winter sun, calm radiance
Traditional association, recorded because families use it when choosing — see all Mesh names.
Where this comes from
Arjun 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.