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Names starting with A (अ): 33 names from the scriptures

26 for boys and 7 for girls. With each name: its meaning, its number in the text, and the nakshatra pada and rashi of its first syllable.

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Here are 33 names starting with A (अ): 26 for boys and 7 for girls. Each comes from the Lalita Sahasranama, Vishnu Sahasranama, Durga Ashtottara Shatanama, Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata) and was checked in two separate editions; with each name are its meaning, its number in the text, and the nakshatra pada and rashi of its first syllable by the Avakahada chakra (Aries (Mesha)).

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Boys’ names starting with A (अ) (26)

  • अक्रूर

    AkrurBoy

    Free of cruelty: with every wish fulfilled, he has no anger

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 915
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अक्षर

    AksharBoy

    The imperishable Supreme Self, which never decays

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 17
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अग्रज

    AgrajBoy

    The first-born, Hiranyagarbha

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 891
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अचल

    AchalBoy

    Unmoving: never falling from his nature, power or wisdom

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 745
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अचिंत्य

    अचिन्त्यAchintyaBoy

    Inconceivable, beyond every proof

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 832
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अच्युत

    AchyutBoy

    Who never has fallen, and never will fall, from his own nature

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 100
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अज

    AjBoy

    The unborn: never born and never to be born

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 95
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अजित

    AjitBoy

    Unconquered by anyone

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 549
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अतींद्र

    अतीन्द्रAtindraBoy

    Who surpasses Indra in the wisdom and greatness that are his by nature

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 157
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अतुल

    AtulBoy

    Beyond compare

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 355
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अनंत

    अनन्तAnantBoy

    Endless: all-pervading, eternal, the Self of all, beyond the bounds of place and time

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 659
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अनघ

    AnaghBoy

    Sinless

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 146
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अनामय

    AnamayBoy

    Free from every ill, inner or outer, that comes of karma

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 689
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अनिरुद्ध

    AniruddhBoy

    Whom no one can obstruct

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 185
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अनुत्तम

    AnuttamBoy

    Unsurpassed: there is none higher

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 80
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अपराजित

    AparajitBoy

    Never defeated, by desire within or by demons without

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 716
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अप्रमेय

    AprameyaBoy

    Beyond every means of knowing: not reached by the senses, inference or comparison

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 46
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अभिराम

    AbhiramBoy

    Delightful and beautiful

    Source
    Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata), name 985 (Gita Press); Pune edition, Anushasana Parva 17.147
    Deity
    Shiva
    Meaning based on
    Sanskrit dictionary: Monier-Williams p. 68; Apte p. 136
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अमर

    AmarBoy

    Undying, imperishable

    Source
    Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata), name 280 (Gita Press); Pune edition, Anushasana Parva 17.62
    Deity
    Shiva
    Meaning based on
    Sanskrit dictionary: Monier-Williams p. 80; Apte p. 149
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अमरेश

    AmreshBoy

    Lord of the immortals, the gods

    Source
    Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata), name 602 (Gita Press); Pune edition, Anushasana Parva 17.99
    Deity
    Shiva
    Meaning based on
    Sanskrit dictionary: Monier-Williams p. 80
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अमृत

    AmritBoy

    Immortal: without decay or death

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 119
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अमोघ

    AmoghBoy

    Whose worship never fails to bear fruit; whose will is never thwarted

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 110
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अर्क

    ArkBoy

    Worshipped even by Brahma and the most worshipful

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 795
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अर्चित

    ArchitBoy

    Worshipped even by Brahma and the others

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 634
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अर्थ

    ArthBoy

    Desired by all, being bliss itself

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 430
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अशोक

    AshokBoy

    Free from sorrow and the other five afflictions

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 336
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

Girls’ names starting with A (अ) (7)

  • अंबा

    अम्बाAmbaGirl

    The mother, cause of the three gunas

    Source
    Lalita Sahasranama, name 985
    Deity
    Lalita (the Devi)
    Meaning based on
    Bhaskararaya’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अंबिका

    अम्बिकाAmbikaGirl

    Mother of the universe

    Source
    Lalita Sahasranama, name 295
    Deity
    Lalita (the Devi)
    Meaning based on
    Bhaskararaya’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अनंता

    अनन्ताAnantaGirl

    Endless: her nature has no end

    Source
    Durga Ashtottara Shatanama, name 25 (Gita Press)
    Deity
    Durga
    Meaning based on
    Sanskrit dictionary: Monier-Williams p. 25
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अनघा

    AnaghaGirl

    Free of sin, pain and misery

    Source
    Lalita Sahasranama, name 987
    Deity
    Lalita (the Devi)
    Meaning based on
    Bhaskararaya’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अन्नदा

    AnnadaGirl

    Giver of food

    Source
    Lalita Sahasranama, name 669
    Deity
    Lalita (the Devi)
    Meaning based on
    Bhaskararaya’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अपर्णा

    AparnaGirl

    Who gave up even leaves (parna) as food in her penance (Kalika Purana); or free of debt

    Source
    Lalita Sahasranama, name 754; also in the Durga Ashtottara Shatanama (name 38)
    Deity
    Lalita (the Devi)
    Meaning based on
    Bhaskararaya’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • अमेया

    AmeyaGirl

    Immeasurable

    Source
    Lalita Sahasranama, name 616
    Deity
    Lalita (the Devi)
    Meaning based on
    Bhaskararaya’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

Names with A (अ): questions and answers

What is the rashi of a name starting with A (अ)?

In the Avakahada chakra the rashi of the nakshatra pada a name’s first syllable belongs to is the name rashi. The first syllables of the names on this page: अ (Krittika pada 1, Aries (Mesha)): अंबा, अंबिका, अक्रूर, अक्षर and others. This is the name rashi; the birth rashi is the Moon’s rashi at birth, found from the birth panchang.

What does the number next to the source mean?

It is the name’s place in the text: 1 to 1000 in the Vishnu and Lalita Sahasranamas, 1 to 1008 in the Mahabharata’s Shiva Sahasranama as the Gita Press counts it, and 1 to 108 in the Durga Ashtottara Shatanama. Where a name comes more than once, the first number is given.

Must the name begin with the syllable of the birth nakshatra?

Many families keep the custom of giving a name that begins with the syllable of the Moon’s nakshatra pada at birth. That is a matter of family custom. This page gives the pada of each name’s first syllable so the match can be made; the birth pada comes from the birth panchang. Ask your family purohit about the naming rite itself.

Sources

  1. Lalita Sahasranama: Lalita Sahasranamavali, sanskritdocuments.org
  2. Lalita Sahasranama: Lalita Sahasranama with Bhaskararaya’s Commentary, tr. R. Ananthakrishna Sastry (2nd ed., 1925)
  3. Vishnu Sahasranama: Mahabharata, vol. 6 (Anushasana Parva), Gita Press: numbered, with a Hindi gloss
  4. Vishnu Sahasranama: Vishnu Sahasranamavali, sanskritdocuments.org
  5. Vishnu Sahasranama: The Vishnu Sahasranama with the Bhashya of Sri Sankaracharya, tr. R. Ananthakrishna Sastry (Theosophical Publishing House, 1927)
  6. Durga Ashtottara Shatanama: Sachitra Shri Durga Saptashati, tr. Ramnarayan Dutt Shastri ‘Ram’ (Gita Press, 1961): numbered, with a Hindi gloss
  7. Durga Ashtottara Shatanama: Shri Durga Ashtottarashatanama Stotram and Namavali, sanskritdocuments.org
  8. Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata): Mahabharata, vol. 6 (Anushasana Parva), Gita Press: numbered, with a Hindi gloss
  9. Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata): Mahabharata, Pune critical edition (BORI), Anushasana Parva, sanskritdocuments.org
  10. Name syllables: Brihad Avakahada Chakram, Shatapada Chakra verses 9–15; Pt. Sitarama Sharma, Ati Brihat Avakahada Chakram (1932), pp. 22–26

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