Mantra

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: Simha
• Nakshatra: Magha
• More names starting with M

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Sacred utterance”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• 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
• Reva — Meanings families give: River Narmada, swift moving; River Narmada, star; River Narmada, to move; Sacred river, to move, agile
• Divyansh — Divine part, a sacred portion of the supreme divine
• Puneeth — Purified, holy, sacred
• Omkar — Meanings families give: Sacred syllable; Sacred sound; The sound of Om, the sacred primordial vibration; Symbol of the Absolute, the sacred cosmic sound; The sound of Om, Shiva; Sacred syllable Om, form of Lord Ganesh; Sacred Om sound, beginning of all; The sacred syllable Om, divine sound; Sacred syllable Om
• Kush — the sacred grass used at certain religious ceremonies (Poa cynosuroides, a grass with long pointed stalks)

More unisex names of Sanskrit origin

• Sai — Divine, saintly
• Ishan — Meanings families give: Lord Shiva, northeast direction, one who desires; Sun, Shiva, north-east
• Aadi — Beginning, the first
• Arsh — Sky, throne of God
• Raahi — Meanings families give: Traveller, one on a journey; Traveller, wanderer, free spirit
• Moksha — Meanings families give: Salvation, liberation; Liberation, salvation, freedom from cycle

Other names under Simha rashi

• Lavanya — beauty, loveliness
• Krishna — (with or without ) the dark half of the lunar month from full to new moon
• Surya — the wife of the god
• Lakshay — Target, aim, goal
• Harshil — Joyful, happy
• Misha — Sweet like nectar, joyful

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

Where this comes from

Mantra 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.