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

This page lists 40 boy names and 36 girl names that begin with D. Each D 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.

D covers two different sounds. The dental द, with the tongue against the teeth, begins Dev, Deepak and Durga, while the retroflex ड, with the tongue curled back, begins far fewer names. Dh is a separate group again. English spelling hides these differences, so the names here are treated as dental.

Boy names starting with D

Girl names starting with D

D in the nakshatra table

The 108 naming syllables include 12 that begin with D: Da in Pushya pada 4, Di in Ashlesha pada 1, Du in Ashlesha pada 2, De in Ashlesha pada 3, Do in Ashlesha pada 4, Dha in Purva Ashadha pada 2, Dha in Purva Ashadha pada 4, Da in Purva Bhadrapada pada 3, Di in Purva Bhadrapada pada 4, Du in Uttara Bhadrapada pada 1, De in Revati pada 1 and Do in Revati pada 2. A baby whose Moon falls in one of those D padas takes that sound, and the D names above that match are shown in the last column of each table.

D in the rashi chart

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

Move on to the previous letter, C and the next letter, E, return to the letters index, or search every name together in the name finder. For the D 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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