Harit

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: Tula
• Nakshatra: Swati
• More names starting with H

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Green, the color of nature, freshness and growth”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Zaid — Meanings families give: Growth, increase and abundance in all good things; Growth, abundance, surplus
• Pallavi — Meanings families give: New leaves, bud; New leaves, tender green shoots; New leaves, young sprouts; New leaves, fresh sprouting
• Hari — yellow or reddish brown or green (the colour)
• Haritha — Meanings families give: Green, nature, Goddess of greenery; Green, nature, healthy
• Harita — Green, natural, one who is like nature
• Harphoolbai — Lady of green flowers, nature lover

More boys' names of Sanskrit origin

• Reyansh — Meanings families give: Ray of light; Ray of light, part of God Vishnu
• Aryan — Noble, of high birth
• Krish — Meanings families give: Lord Krishna; Short form of Krishna, dark, attractive
• Aarush — Meanings families give: First ray of sun; First ray of the winter sun, calm radiance
• Arnav — come from the sea
• Viaan — Meanings families give: Full of life, energy; Full of energy, lively, animated

Other names under Tula rashi

• Raha — Rest, happiness, freedom
• Rohan — a means of ascending
• Rudra — Meanings families give: Fierce, roarer (Lord Shiva); The roarer, fearsome form of Shiva, lord of storms; Fierce form of Shiva, the howler; Fierce form of Shiva; the howler; Lord Shiva, storm god; Fierce form of Shiva, storm; God of storm, fierce energy
• Riya — Meanings families give: Singer, graceful; Singer; graceful; goddess Lakshmi; Singer, graceful, Goddess Lakshmi; Singer, graceful, gem
• Ranveer — Meanings families give: Hero of the battlefield, brave warrior; Hero of the battlefield
• Rhea — Flowing stream, mother goddess

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

Where this comes from

Harit 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.