Padmaja

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: Meen
• Nakshatra: Uttara Bhadrapada
• More names starting with P

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: Lotus-born, born from the lotus; Goddess Lakshmi, born from lotus; Born of lotus, Lakshmi; Born from lotus, Goddess Lakshmi”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Neeraj — Lotus, born from water, pure
• Aravind — Meanings families give: Lotus; Lotus flower
• Padma — Meanings families give: Lotus flower, Goddess Lakshmi; Lotus; Goddess Lakshmi seated on lotus
• Charan — Meanings families give: Feet, one who moves; Lotus feet, one who seeks refuge; Feet of God, sacred touch of the divine
• Kamala — Meanings families give: Lotus, Goddess Lakshmi, pale red; Lotus, Goddess Lakshmi
• Rajiv — a blue lotus-flower

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

• Sadhana — Meanings families give: Devotion, practice; Spiritual practice, fulfillment; Practice, worship, attainment; Practice, spiritual discipline

Other names under Meen rashi

• Pratham — n. foremost, first (in time or in a series or in rank)
• Piya — Beloved, dear one, sweetheart
• Prithvi — Meanings families give: Earth, world, the ground; Earth, wide, expansive
• Pavan — vital air
• Revathi — Meanings families give: Star Revati, prosperous; Prosperity, wealthy, last nakshatra; Prosperous, the last star, Apsara; A star, prosperity, wealth
• Priyal — Meanings families give: Beloved, dear one; Beloved, dear; Beloved, pleasing, dear one

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

Where this comes from

Padmaja 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.