Hemant

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: Punarvasu
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Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: Winter, the cold season, golden and of early winter; Gold, winter season; Winter season; golden”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Tushar — sg. and pl. frost, cold, snow, mist, dew, thin rain
• Olivia — From Latin Olīva, an early saints' name from olīva ('olive; olive branch')
• Aruna — Meanings families give: Dawn, reddish glow of sunrise; Dawn, early morning redness; Dawn, reddish, charioteer of sun
• Pratyusha — Dawn, early morning light
• Aarush — Meanings families give: First ray of sun; First ray of the winter sun, calm radiance
• Hemanta — Winter, golden season

More boys' names of Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Gujarati / Sanskrit-Marathi origin

• Yash — Meanings families give: Glory, fame; Fame, glory, success, celebrity; Fame, glory, success; Success, glory, fame
• Parth — Meanings families give: Prince, Arjuna; Arjuna, prince; Son of Pritha, another name for Arjuna the great hero; Arjuna, son of Pritha, earthly; Son of Pritha; name of Arjuna; Arjuna, one who never misses the target; Arjuna, king, prince
• 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
• Mihir — Meanings families give: Sun, friend; Sun, sunlight and radiant solar energy; Sun, sunray, the sun god; Sun; midday sun; Sun, sunshine; Sun, sunshine, solar
• Shlok — fame renown, glory, praise, hymn of praise
• Chinmay — Meanings families give: Full of knowledge; Supreme consciousness; Full of knowledge, consciousness; Supreme consciousness; blissful

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
• 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
• Divya — Meanings families give: Divine, heavenly; Divine, heavenly, brilliant; Divine, heavenly, brilliant light; Divine, brilliant, beautiful

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

Where this comes from

Hemant 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.