Nisha

In the epics

Nisha appears in the Mahābhārata as a wife of Manu: Wife of fire Manu.

Source: Drimigo Scripture KG (CC BY 4.0). Many characters share a name across the epics — this is one notable figure who bore it, not a claim about the name's only meaning.

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: Jyeshtha
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Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: Night; Night, goddess of night; Night; the beautiful quiet of night; Night, moonlit night; Night, dream, darkness”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Swapna — Meanings families give: Dream, vision, wish; Dream; one who lives in dreams; Dream, vision; Dream, vision, fantasy
• Swapnil — Meanings families give: Dreamy, relating to dreams and fond aspirations; Dreamy; one who is like a dream; Dreamlike, visionary
• Nirav — Meanings families give: Quiet, silent, calm; Quiet, calm, without sound; Silent, quiet, serene
• Shanti — tranquillity, peace, quiet, peace or calmness of mind, absence of passion, averting of pain (! ! ! may the three kinds of pain be averted!), indifference to objects of pleasure or pain
• Nishith — Midnight, the deep dark hour of quiet peace
• Chirag — Meanings families give: Lamp, the light that drives away darkness; Lamp, light, flame; Lamp, light, son

More girls' names of Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Bengali / Sanskrit-Odia origin

• Anindita — Meanings families give: Beautiful, faultless; Virtuous, praiseworthy, blameless; Blameless, virtuous; one beyond reproach; Without blemish, praiseworthy
• Saraswati — Meanings families give: Goddess of learning and arts; Goddess of learning and arts; the flowing one; Goddess of knowledge and arts
• Sangita — sung together, sung in chorus or harmony
• Aparajita — n. unconquered, unsurpassed
• Sunanda — pleasing well, delighting

Other names under Vrischik rashi

• Neha — Meanings families give: Rain, love, affection; Love, affection, dew
• Neel — Meanings families give: Blue, sapphire; Blue, sapphire colored like the sky and ocean; Blue, sapphire; Lord Vishnu; Blue, like the sky
• 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

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

Where this comes from

Nisha 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.