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Names starting with U (उ): 5 names from the scriptures

4 for boys and 1 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 U (उ): 4 for boys and 1 for girls. Each comes from the Vishnu Sahasranama, Lalita Sahasranama, 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 (Taurus (Vrishabha)).

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Boys’ names starting with U (उ) (4)

  • उद्भव

    UdbhavBoy

    The origin of the universe

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 373
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    उ → Krittika pada 3 → Taurus (Vrishabha)

  • उपेंद्र

    उपेन्द्रUpendraBoy

    The younger brother of Indra (born to Aditi as Vamana)

    Source
    Vishnu Sahasranama, name 151
    Deity
    Vishnu
    Meaning based on
    Shankara’s commentary
    First syllable
    उ → Krittika pada 3 → Taurus (Vrishabha)

  • उमाकांत

    उमाकान्तUmakantBoy

    Beloved of Uma

    Source
    Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata), name 878 (Gita Press); Pune edition, Anushasana Parva 17.134
    Deity
    Shiva
    Meaning based on
    Sanskrit dictionary: Monier-Williams p. 217
    First syllable
    उ → Krittika pada 3 → Taurus (Vrishabha)

  • उमापति

    UmapatiBoy

    Husband of Uma

    Source
    Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata), name 94 (Gita Press); Pune edition, Anushasana Parva 17.40
    Deity
    Shiva
    Meaning based on
    Sanskrit dictionary: Monier-Williams p. 217
    First syllable
    उ → Krittika pada 3 → Taurus (Vrishabha)

Girls’ names starting with U (उ) (1)

  • उमा

    UmaGirl

    U (Shiva) and Ma (Lakshmi); or “u ma”, “oh, do not”, her mother’s words when she began her penance (Kalika Purana, as Bhaskararaya cites it)

    Source
    Lalita Sahasranama, name 633
    Deity
    Lalita (the Devi)
    Meaning based on
    Bhaskararaya’s commentary
    First syllable
    उ → Krittika pada 3 → Taurus (Vrishabha)

Names with U (उ): questions and answers

What is the rashi of a name starting with U (उ)?

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: उ (Krittika pada 3, Taurus (Vrishabha)): उद्भव, उपेंद्र, उमा, उमाकांत 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. Lalita Sahasranama: Lalita Sahasranamavali, sanskritdocuments.org
  5. Lalita Sahasranama: Lalita Sahasranama with Bhaskararaya’s Commentary, tr. R. Ananthakrishna Sastry (2nd ed., 1925)
  6. Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata): Mahabharata, vol. 6 (Anushasana Parva), Gita Press: numbered, with a Hindi gloss
  7. Shiva Sahasranama (Mahabharata): Mahabharata, Pune critical edition (BORI), Anushasana Parva, sanskritdocuments.org
  8. 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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