Kumkum

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Red vermilion powder; auspicious mark”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Sindhura — Vermilion, sindoor, auspicious red
• Abir — Meanings families give: Color, fragrance; Color, festive powder used at Holi
• Shashank — Meanings families give: Moon, having a rabbit mark; The moon, moonshine
• Rekha — Meanings families give: Line, art, mark, direction; Line, streak of light; Line, streak, boundary; Line, script, a mark; Line, streak, art
• Amogh — n. unerring, unfailing, not vain, efficacious, succeeding, hitting the mark, productive, fruitful
• Shashi — Moon, the hare mark moon

More girls' names of Bengali origin

• Shiuli — Night jasmine flower; fragrant autumn bloom
• Oishee — Divine, of God; belonging to the divine
• Doyel — The Oriental Magpie Robin; national bird of Bangladesh
• Brishti — Rain; the blessed monsoon rains
• Mili — To meet, to unite
• Reeya — Singer; one with a melodious voice

Where this comes from

Kumkum 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.