Shlok

Classical Sanskrit origin

श्लोक (śloka): fame renown, glory, praise, hymn of praise.

Source: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), a public-domain scholarly reference — not every popular name today traces to a classical dictionary entry, so this section only appears where a verified match exists.

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: Kumbh
• Nakshatra: Dhanishta
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Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “fame renown, glory, praise, hymn of praise”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Yashoda — conferring fame or renown
• Yasoda — conferring fame or renown
• Yaashvir — Famous hero, warrior of great renown
• Pugal — Fame, renown
• Gayathri — Meanings families give: Sacred Vedic hymn; A sacred Vedic hymn, mother of Vedas
• Gayatri — Meanings families give: Mother of the Vedas, divine hymn; Sacred Vedic hymn, singer

More boys' names of Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Gujarati / Sanskrit-Marathi origin

• Yash — Meanings families give: Glory, fame; Fame, glory, success, celebrity; Fame, glory, success; Success, glory, fame
• Parth — Meanings families give: Prince, Arjuna; Arjuna, prince; Son of Pritha, another name for Arjuna the great hero; Arjuna, son of Pritha, earthly; Son of Pritha; name of Arjuna; Arjuna, one who never misses the target; Arjuna, king, prince
• Vedant — Meanings families give: Ultimate knowledge; End of Vedas, the Upanishads and highest knowledge; Ultimate wisdom, end of the Vedas; Ultimate knowledge; Vedanta philosophy; Ultimate knowledge, Vedas; Ultimate knowledge, Vedanta philosophy
• Mihir — Meanings families give: Sun, friend; Sun, sunlight and radiant solar energy; Sun, sunray, the sun god; Sun; midday sun; Sun, sunshine; Sun, sunshine, solar
• Hemant — Meanings families give: Winter, the cold season, golden and of early winter; Gold, winter season; Winter season; golden
• Chinmay — Meanings families give: Full of knowledge; Supreme consciousness; Full of knowledge, consciousness; Supreme consciousness; blissful

Other names under Kumbh rashi

• Saanvi — Meanings families give: Goddess Lakshmi; Goddess Lakshmi, one who follows; Goddess Lakshmi, knowledge
• Shreya — Meanings families give: Auspicious, fortunate; Auspicious, fortunate, excellent; Auspicious, best; one who brings good fortune; Auspicious, better, fortunate; Auspicious, fortunate, prosperity; Beautiful, auspicious, fortunate
• Siya — Meanings families give: Goddess Sita; Goddess Sita, white; Goddess Sita, pure white
• Shiv — n. auspicious, propitious, gracious, favourable, benign, kind, benevolent, friendly, dear ( ind. kindly, tenderly)
• Shivansh — Meanings families give: Part of Lord Shiva; Part of Shiva, a divine fragment of the cosmic lord
• Siddharth — Meanings families give: One who has attained; One who has accomplished his goals, Gautam Buddha; One who has attained his goals, Buddha; One who has attained his goals; One who has attained his goal; One who has attained goals; the Buddha

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

Where this comes from

Shlok's etymology is verified against Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899). 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.