Varsha

Classical Sanskrit origin

वर्षा (varṣā): pl. (exceptionally sg.) the rains, rainy season, monsoon.

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: Mrigashira
• More names starting with V

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “pl. (exceptionally sg.) the rains, rainy season, monsoon”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Vibudh — Wise, learned and exceptionally intelligent scholar
• Varun — Meanings families give: Lord of the water; God of water, the Vedic deity of oceans and rains; God of water, sea; Water god, ocean, rain
• Brishti — Rain; the blessed monsoon rains
• Meghana — Meanings families give: Cloud, rain; Cloud, rain cloud, musical raaga; Cloud, rain-bearing cloud; Cloud, rainy sky
• Savan — Monsoon, the rainy season, the month of Shravan
• Keya — Meanings families give: A flower, monsoon flower; A flower; monsoon flower

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

Varsha'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.