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

This page lists 26 boy names and 25 girl names that begin with T. Each T 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.

T is usually the dental त of Tarun and Tanvi, said with the tongue against the teeth. The retroflex ट is a different sound that rarely begins a name, and the conjunct त्र, written Tr, begins names such as Trilok.

Boy names starting with T

Girl names starting with T

T in the nakshatra table

The 108 naming syllables include 12 that begin with T: Ta in Purva Phalguni pada 2, Ti in Purva Phalguni pada 3, Tu in Purva Phalguni pada 4, Te in Uttara Phalguni pada 1, To in Uttara Phalguni pada 2, Tha in Hasta pada 4, Taa in Swati pada 4, Ti in Vishakha pada 1, Tu in Vishakha pada 2, Te in Vishakha pada 3, To in Vishakha pada 4 and Tha in Uttara Bhadrapada pada 2. A baby whose Moon falls in one of those T padas takes that sound, and the T names above that match are shown in the last column of each table.

T in the rashi chart

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

Move on to the previous letter, S and the next letter, U, return to the letters index, or search every name together in the name finder. For the T 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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