Yashodha
Yashodha means conferring splendour or fame.
Meaning: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).
| Gender | girl |
| Origin | Sanskrit-Kannada |
| Language | Kannada |
| Starts with | Y |
Classical Sanskrit origin
यशोधा (yaśodhā): conferring splendour or fame.
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: Dhanu
- Nakshatra: Mula
- More names starting with Y
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “conferring splendour or fame”. 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
- Yashoda — conferring fame or renown
- Yasoda — conferring fame or renown
- Viraj — Meanings families give: Splendour, resplendent; Resplendent, shining with great beauty and light; Splendour, to shine; Splendour, to shine, king
- Zia — Light, splendour
- Ziya — Meanings families give: Light, enlightenment; Light, glow, splendour
More girls' names of Sanskrit-Kannada origin
Other names under Dhanu rashi
- Subhadra — n. (-) very glorious or splendid or auspicious or fortunate
- Shruti — Meanings families give: Heard, sacred scriptures, Vedas; That which is heard, the Vedas; Hearing, sacred scriptures
- Ayyappan — Meanings families give: Lord Ayyappa; Lord Ayyappa, divine son of Shiva and Vishnu
- Subhashree — Good fortune, beautiful blessing
- Tanushree — Meanings families give: Beautiful body, graceful; One with a beautiful body; graceful woman
- Sowmya — Meanings families give: Gracious, calm, born of moonlight; Gentle, soft, pleasing; Gentle, calm, mild, Goddess Parvati; Gentle, soft, pleasing, calm
Traditional association, recorded because families use it when choosing — see all Dhanu names.
Where this comes from
Yashodha'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.