Badal
Badal means Cloud, one who brings rain and nourishment.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Hindi |
| Language | Hindi |
| Starts with | B |
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: Vrishabh
- Nakshatra: Rohini
- More names starting with B
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Cloud, one who brings rain and nourishment”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Annapoorni — Goddess of food and nourishment
- Meghana — Meanings families give: Cloud, rain; Cloud, rain cloud, musical raaga; Cloud, rain-bearing cloud; Cloud, rainy sky
- Meghna — Meanings families give: River, clouds, rain bearer; The river Meghna; cloud-river of Bengal
- Megha — Meanings families give: Cloud, rain cloud; Cloud, rain, sky
- Shyam — Meanings families give: Dark complexioned, a beloved name for Lord Krishna; Dark, Krishna, cloud-like, beautiful dark one
- Jaladhara — ‘holding water’, a (rain-) cloud
More boys' names of Hindi origin
Other names under Vrishabh rashi
- Vihaan — Meanings families give: Dawn, morning; Dawn, morning, beginning; Dawn, beginning of new era; Dawn, morning, beginning of light
- Vamika — Meanings families give: Goddess Durga, moving to the left; Goddess Parvati, another name for Durga
- Vivaan — Meanings families give: Full of life; Full of life, rays of the morning sun; Full of life, Sun; Full of life, sunrise
- Viaan — Meanings families give: Full of life, energy; Full of energy, lively, animated
- Tara — n. a star
- Vedant — Meanings families give: Ultimate knowledge; End of Vedas, the Upanishads and highest knowledge; Ultimate wisdom, end of the Vedas; Ultimate knowledge; Vedanta philosophy; Ultimate knowledge, Vedas; Ultimate knowledge, Vedanta philosophy
Traditional association, recorded because families use it when choosing — see all Vrishabh names.
Where this comes from
Badal 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.