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Indian Baby Girl Names with Meanings

Indian baby girl names with meanings, Devanagari spellings and pronunciation, from Priya and Aditi to Saanvi, Pari, Fatima and Simran.

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Girl names in India draw on a wide vocabulary of light, water, sound and devotion. Diya and Deepika are lamps, Kiran is a ray of light, Sarita is a river, Swara is a musical note, Kavya is poetry, and Pooja and Aaradhya both come from words for worship. Names of goddesses and heroines appear too: Aditi, Padma, Rukmini, Meenakshi and Siya, which is Sita.

Many of the most popular girl names of the last decade have no settled dictionary meaning. Saanvi, Aanya, Aarvi, Myra and Kiara are used by thousands of families, and this catalog lists them, but their guides say plainly that the meanings circulating online are candidates rather than documented senses. Families who want a name with a verifiable root can filter for Sanskrit, Arabic or Hebrew origins.

Beyond Sanskrit, the list includes Fatima, Maryam, Aisha, Saira and Zoya from Arabic and Persian, Simran and Jashandeep from Punjabi, Kajol and Pakhi from Bengali, and Sarah, which Indian Christian and Muslim families both use. Each guide records how the name is spelled in Devanagari and where families often spell it differently in English.

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