Gitanjali

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
• More names starting with G

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: Offering of songs, garland of hymns; Offering of songs, devotional songs”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Geetanjali — Meanings families give: Offering of songs, musical garland; Offering of songs; collection of devotional songs; Offering of songs; Tagore work
• Geethanjali — Collection of songs, musical offering
• Geethalakshmi — Lakshmi of songs
• Moovai — Three songs
• Keerthana — Meanings families give: Devotional song; Praise, devotional song; Devotional song, fame, glory; Devotional song, praise
• Kirtan — Devotional song; singing praises of God

More girls' names of Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Odia origin

• Madhusmita — Meanings families give: Sweet smile, one with honey smile; Sweet smile, honeyed smile
• Manasi — Meanings families give: Of the mind, intelligent; Born of the mind, intellectual
• Gita — a song, sacred song or poem, religious doctrines declared in metrical form by an inspired sage
• Ketaki — Meanings families give: A fragrant flower; A fragrant flower, Pandanus; Screw pine flower, yellow flower
• Smruti — Memory, remembrance
• Maheswari — Meanings families give: Goddess Parvati, wife of Mahesh; Goddess Parvati, great goddess

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

Gitanjali 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.