Uday
Uday means success, prosperity, good fortune.
Meaning: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Telugu |
| Language | Hindi / Telugu |
| Starts with | U |
Classical Sanskrit origin
उदय (udaya): success, prosperity, good fortune.
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: Vrishabh
- Nakshatra: Rohini
- More names starting with U
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “success, prosperity, good fortune”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Yash — Meanings families give: Glory, fame; Fame, glory, success, celebrity; Fame, glory, success; Success, glory, fame
- Radha — Meanings families give: Beloved of Krishna, success; Devotee of Lord Krishna, prosperity
- Riddhi — Meanings families give: Prosperity, good fortune; Prosperity, fortune; Prosperity, wealth and auspicious good fortune; Prosperity, good fortune, success
- Siddhi — Meanings families give: Achievement, supernatural power; Accomplishment, magical power; Achievement, attainment, success; Achievement, perfection, spiritual power
- Yashika — Success, fame, glorious girl
- Anuradha — Meanings families give: A star, success; A star, success, prosperity
More boys' names of Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Telugu origin
- Virat — Meanings families give: Vast, powerful; Enormous, vast, great
- Ajay — Meanings families give: Unconquerable, one who cannot be defeated; Unconquerable, invincible
- Chaitanya — Meanings families give: Consciousness, life force; Consciousness, divine energy and spiritual vitality; Consciousness, awareness, spirited
- Sameer — Meanings families give: Breeze, gentle wind, an entertainer who pleases; Wind, air, pleasant breeze
- Yogi — Meanings families give: Practitioner of yoga; One who practices yoga, spiritual
- Jitendra — Meanings families give: One who has conquered Indra, lord of victories; Conqueror of Indra, victorious
Other names under Vrishabh rashi
- Vihaan — Meanings families give: Dawn, morning; Dawn, morning, beginning; Dawn, beginning of new era; Dawn, morning, beginning of light
- Vamika — Meanings families give: Goddess Durga, moving to the left; Goddess Parvati, another name for Durga
- Vivaan — Meanings families give: Full of life; Full of life, rays of the morning sun; Full of life, Sun; Full of life, sunrise
- Viaan — Meanings families give: Full of life, energy; Full of energy, lively, animated
- Tara — n. a star
- 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
Traditional association, recorded because families use it when choosing — see all Vrishabh names.
Where this comes from
Uday'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.