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Krittika Nakshatra Baby Names
A baby born with the Moon in Krittika (कृत्तिका) is traditionally given a name starting with one of four sounds: A, I, U, E — one for each pada.
About Krittika
- Name means: “to cut”.
- Deity: Agni.
- Stars: the Pleiades.
- Moon sign (): Mesha / Vrishabha — this Nakshatra crosses two signs, so the pada decides which.
Source for name meaning, deity and stars: Wikipedia — Nakshatra (table of the 27 nakshatras). Full Krittika profile →
Name letters by
Each pada is one quarter of the Nakshatra (3°20′ of the sky). Only one of these four sounds is your baby’s — the pada needs the exact birth time.
Pada 1: “A” (अ) · Moon in Mesha (Aries)
Pada 2: “I” (ई) · Moon in Vrishabha (Taurus)
Pada 3: “U” (ऊ) · Moon in Vrishabha (Taurus)
Pada 4: “E” (ए) · Moon in Vrishabha (Taurus)
- girlEkta एकता — oneness, unity Source
10 names listed for Krittika. The list is deliberately short — each meaning links to the dictionary or name reference it comes from — and names are matched by their first Devanagari syllable (consonant and vowel), so “Dev” (देव) counts as “De”, not “Da”.
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