Yashoda

Classical Sanskrit origin

यशोद (yaśoda): conferring fame or renown.

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: Vrischik
• Nakshatra: Jyeshtha
• More names starting with Y

Names with a similar meaning

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

• Anugraha — favour, kindness, showing favour, conferring benefits, promoting or furthering a good object
• Yasoda — conferring fame or renown
• Yashodha — conferring splendour or fame
• Shlok — fame renown, glory, praise, hymn of praise
• Yaashvir — Famous hero, warrior of great renown
• Pugal — Fame, renown

More girls' names of Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Marathi origin

• Radha — Meanings families give: Beloved of Krishna, success; Devotee of Lord Krishna, prosperity
• Swara — Meanings families give: Musical note, melody, sound; Musical note, one who has good voice; Musical note, divine; Musical note, voice, sound
• Preeti — Meanings families give: Love, joy, affection; Love, affection, delight
• Kirti — good report, fame
• Shilpa — skill in any art or craft or work of art, ingenuity, contrivance
• Deepali — Meanings families give: Row of lamps, festival of lights; A row of lamps, Diwali lights

Other names under Vrischik rashi

• Neha — Meanings families give: Rain, love, affection; Love, affection, dew
• Neel — Meanings families give: Blue, sapphire; Blue, sapphire colored like the sky and ocean; Blue, sapphire; Lord Vishnu; Blue, like the sky
• Naman — Meanings families give: Salutation, bowing in reverence and respect; Salutation, bowing in respect; Salutation, bow
• Nikhil — n. complete, all
• Anusha — Star, following, after dawn
• Krisha — Meanings families give: Divine, enchanting; Feminine form of Krishna; divine

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

Where this comes from

Yashoda'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.