Urmilabai

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: Simha
• Nakshatra: Magha
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Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Lady of gentle waves, flowing grace”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Urmi — Wave, ripple; waves of the sea
• Urmila — Meanings families give: Wife of Lakshmana, enchanting; Enchanting, waves of passion; wife of Lakshmana
• Tarangini — River of waves, flowing
• Jhanvi — Meanings families give: River Ganga; River Ganga, flowing and pure
• Rhea — Flowing stream, mother goddess
• Zeel — Meanings families give: Waterfall; cascading water; Name of a river, flowing; Flowing water; Waterfall, flowing water; Flow, waterfall, moving water

More girls' names of Sanskrit-Rajasthani origin

• Mirabai — Devoted to Krishna, beloved mystic
• Luxmibai — Lady Lakshmi, goddess of wealth
• Padmavati — of the goddess
• Sitabai — Lady Sita, devoted pure woman
• Savitribai — Devoted wife, pious holy lady
• Krishnabai — Devoted to Krishna, dark beauty

Other names under Simha rashi

• Lavanya — beauty, loveliness
• Krishna — (with or without ) the dark half of the lunar month from full to new moon
• Surya — the wife of the god
• Lakshay — Target, aim, goal
• Harshil — Joyful, happy
• Misha — Sweet like nectar, joyful

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

Where this comes from

Urmilabai 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.