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Names starting with Aa (आ): 5 names from the scriptures

3 for boys and 2 for girls. With each name: its meaning, its number in the text, and the nakshatra pada and rashi of its first syllable.

In short

Here are 5 names starting with Aa (आ): 3 for boys and 2 for girls. Each comes from the Vishnu Sahasranama, Durga Ashtottara Shatanama 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 Aa (आ) (3)

  • आदित्य

    AdityaBoy

    The golden Person in the sun’s disc; or Vishnu among the twelve Adityas

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 39
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • आदिदेव

    AdidevBoy

    The first god

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 334
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • आनंद

    आनन्दAnandBoy

    Bliss, his very nature

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 526
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

Girls’ names starting with Aa (आ) (2)

  • आद्या

    AdyaGirl

    The first; the unparalleled

    Source
    Durga Ashtottara Shatanama, name 9 (Gita Press)
    Deity
    Durga
    Meaning based on
    Sanskrit dictionary: Monier-Williams p. 137; Apte p. 237
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

  • आर्या

    AryaGirl

    Noble and venerable; a name of Parvati

    Source
    Durga Ashtottara Shatanama, name 6 (Gita Press)
    Deity
    Durga
    Meaning based on
    Sanskrit dictionary: Monier-Williams p. 152; Apte p. 256
    First syllable
    अ → Krittika pada 1 → Aries (Mesha)

Names with Aa (आ): questions and answers

What is the rashi of a name starting with Aa (आ)?

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)): आदित्य, आदिदेव, आद्या, आनंद 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. Vishnu Sahasranama: Mahabharata, vol. 6 (Anushasana Parva), Gita Press: numbered, with a Hindi gloss
  2. Vishnu Sahasranama: Vishnu Sahasranamavali, sanskritdocuments.org
  3. Vishnu Sahasranama: The Vishnu Sahasranama with the Bhashya of Sri Sankaracharya, tr. R. Ananthakrishna Sastry (Theosophical Publishing House, 1927)
  4. Durga Ashtottara Shatanama: Sachitra Shri Durga Saptashati, tr. Ramnarayan Dutt Shastri ‘Ram’ (Gita Press, 1961): numbered, with a Hindi gloss
  5. Durga Ashtottara Shatanama: Shri Durga Ashtottarashatanama Stotram and Namavali, sanskritdocuments.org
  6. 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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