Arun

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 “Meanings families give: Dawn, red; Rising sun, red-hued dawn sky, charioteer of Sun; Dawn, reddish; Dawn, reddish glow of sunrise; Reddish brown, dawn, sun; Dawn, reddish glow of the rising sun”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Manjappa — Meanings families give: Turmeric-colored, golden-hued; Golden one, turmeric-hued
• Aruna — Meanings families give: Dawn, reddish glow of sunrise; Dawn, early morning redness; Dawn, reddish, charioteer of sun
• Parthasarathi — Meanings families give: Charioteer of Arjuna, Lord Krishna as divine guide; Charioteer of Partha, Krishna
• Hari — yellow or reddish brown or green (the colour)
• Kapila — Reddish-brown, the sage Kapila
• Arunima — Meanings families give: Glow of the sunrise; reddish dawn light; Red glow of dawn, sunrise

More boys' names of Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Kannada / Sanskrit-Malayalam / Sanskrit-Marathi / Sanskrit-Telugu origin

• Girish — Meanings families give: Lord of mountains, Shiva who dwells on Kailash; Lord of mountains, Shiva; Lord of the mountains, Shiva; Lord of mountains, Lord Shiva; Lord of the mountain, Shiva

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

Arun 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.