Nilan
Nilan means Meanings families give: Moon; Blue sky, the vast and beautiful blue expanse.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Sanskrit / Tamil |
| Language | Hindi / Tamil |
| Starts with | N |
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: Vrischik
- Nakshatra: Anuradha
- More names starting with N
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: Moon; Blue sky, the vast and beautiful blue expanse”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Akash — Meanings families give: Sky, open space; Sky, atmosphere; boundless as the sky; Sky, vast expanse; Sky, atmosphere, the ether above; Sky, boundless heavens and expanse
- Virat — Meanings families give: Vast, powerful; Enormous, vast, great
- Arnab — Ocean, sea; vast and deep
- Ekambaram — Single sky, the vast one
- Neel — Meanings families give: Blue, sapphire; Blue, sapphire colored like the sky and ocean; Blue, sapphire; Lord Vishnu; Blue, like the sky
- Neil — Blue, champion
More boys' names of Sanskrit / Tamil origin
Other names under Vrischik rashi
- Neha — Meanings families give: Rain, love, affection; Love, affection, dew
- Naman — Meanings families give: Salutation, bowing in reverence and respect; Salutation, bowing in respect; Salutation, bow
- Nikhil — n. complete, all
- Anusha — Star, following, after dawn
- Krisha — Meanings families give: Divine, enchanting; Feminine form of Krishna; divine
- Nikita — Earth, conqueror, unconquered
Traditional association, recorded because families use it when choosing — see all Vrischik names.
Where this comes from
Nilan 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.