Hemantha
Hemantha means Winter season, gold.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Sanskrit-Kannada |
| Language | Kannada |
| Starts with | H |
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: Makar
- Nakshatra: Uttara Ashadha
- More names starting with H
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Winter season, gold”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Aarush — Meanings families give: First ray of sun; First ray of the winter sun, calm radiance
- Hemant — Meanings families give: Winter, the cold season, golden and of early winter; Gold, winter season; Winter season; golden
- Hemanta — Winter, golden season
- Haimanti — Of the winter season; Hemanta daughter
- Hemantika — Of the winter, born in winter
- Varsha — pl. (exceptionally sg.) the rains, rainy season, monsoon
More boys' names of Sanskrit-Kannada origin
Other names under Makar rashi
- Jhanvi — Meanings families give: River Ganga; River Ganga, flowing and pure
- Jahnavi — River Ganga, daughter of sage Jahnu
- Jyoti — Meanings families give: Light, flame; Light, flame, radiance
- Jainam — Victorious
- Jyothi — Meanings families give: Light, flame, radiance; Light, flame, brightness
- Keshav — Meanings families give: One with beautiful long hair, name of Vishnu-Krishna; Lord Krishna, one with long or beautiful hair
Traditional association, recorded because families use it when choosing — see all Makar names.
Where this comes from
Hemantha 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.