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

This page lists 37 boy names and 31 girl names that begin with N. Each N 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.

N covers the dental न of Nitin and Neha, which begins nearly every name here, and the retroflex ण, which almost never begins a name. The two are placed in different rashis in the chart.

Boy names starting with N

Girl names starting with N

N in the nakshatra table

The 108 naming syllables include 8 that begin with N: Nga in Ardra pada 3, Na in Hasta pada 3, Na in Anuradha pada 1, Ni in Anuradha pada 2, Nu in Anuradha pada 3, Ne in Anuradha pada 4, No in Jyeshtha pada 1 and Na in Uttara Bhadrapada pada 4. A baby whose Moon falls in one of those N padas takes that sound, and the N names above that match are shown in the last column of each table.

N in the rashi chart

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

Move on to the previous letter, M and the next letter, O, return to the letters index, or search every name together in the name finder. For the N 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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