Baby Names Starting with B: Boy and Girl Names with Meanings

This page lists 43 boy names and 29 girl names that begin with B. Each B name has its standard meaning and, where there is one, the nakshatra syllable it fits, so a family working from the Moon’s pada can see at a glance which names suit their baby. Only names in real use in India are included.

This page holds both the plain ब names, such as Badal and Bimal, and the aspirated भ names written Bh, such as Bhaskar and Bhavya. In Bengali and Odia spellings B and V are often interchanged, so a name may be listed under B in one family and under V in another.

Boy names starting with B

Girl names starting with B

B in the nakshatra table

The 108 naming syllables include 5 that begin with B: Bha in Moola pada 3, Bhi in Moola pada 4, Bhu in Purva Ashadha pada 1, Bhe in Uttara Ashadha pada 1 and Bho in Uttara Ashadha pada 2. A baby whose Moon falls in one of those B padas takes that sound, and the B names above that match are shown in the last column of each table.

B in the rashi chart

In the first-letter chart, B belongs to Vrishabha and Dhanu. Which of these signs a B name goes to depends on its Devanagari sound, as set out on each rashi page.

Move on to the previous letter, A and the next letter, C, return to the letters index, or search every name together in the name finder. For the B names above, the baby names hub has a page for each of the 27 nakshatras, and the free nakshatra calculator works out your baby’s pada from the birth details.

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