What does the name Shashikala mean?

Q: What does the name Shashikala mean?

Shashikala means "Meanings families give: Phase of the moon, crescent; Phase of the moon, moonbeam". It is a girl's name of Kannada / Sanskrit origin.

Shashikala

Shashikala means Meanings families give: Phase of the moon, crescent; Phase of the moon, moonbeam.

Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.

Gender	girl
Origin	Kannada / Sanskrit
Language	Hindi / Kannada
Starts with	S

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: Phase of the moon, crescent; Phase of the moon, moonbeam”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Chandrakala — Meanings families give: Digit of moon, phase of the crescent; Phase of the moon, moonbeam; Digit of the moon, beautiful as moonbeam
Valarpirai — Waxing crescent moon
Shashirekha — Line of moon, crescent line
Kiran — a ray or beam of light, a sun- or moonbeam
Chandni — Moonlight, moonbeam
Rashmitha — Ray of light, moonbeam

More girls' names of Kannada / Sanskrit origin

Kaveri — Meanings families give: Sacred river; Sacred river, daughter of Kavera; The sacred Kaveri river of Karnataka
Ratna — Meanings families give: Jewel, gem, precious stone; Gem, jewel, precious stone
Mandakini — another river in heaven

Where this comes from

Shashikala 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.