Kashyap

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
• More names starting with K

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: A sage, seer; Ancient sage, tortoise, the progenitor of creation”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Rishi — Meanings families give: Sage, wise one; Sage, a holy seer who perceives divine truth; Sage, seer, enlightened one; Ancient sage, wise one
• Janak — Father, creator and progenitor
• Aadhya — Meanings families give: First power, beginning; First power, beginning of all creation
• Pranav — Meanings families give: Sacred syllable Om; The sacred syllable Om, the cosmic sound of creation; Sacred Om syllable; Sacred syllable Om, life force; Sacred syllable Om, holy sound
• Kriti — creation
• Sanjana — Meanings families give: Gentle, goddess of creation; Gentle, harmonious, born together; Soft-natured, gentle, creator; Gentle, harmonious, creator

More boys' names of Sanskrit / Vedic origin

• Atharv — Meanings families give: Lord Ganesha, knowledge; The fourth Veda, knower of the Atharva Veda; Knowledge, first Veda
• Varun — Meanings families give: Lord of the water; God of water, the Vedic deity of oceans and rains; God of water, sea; Water god, ocean, rain
• Manu — the Man par excellence or the representative man and father of the human race

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

Kashyap 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.