Rashi & Nakshatra Name Finder
Enter your baby's birth date and time. We compute the Moon's exact sidereal position for that moment — real astronomy, not a lookup table — and show the Janma Rashi, birth nakshatra & pada, the auspicious starting syllables, and matching names from 152,000+ real names.
How this works
How do you calculate the rashi and nakshatra?
From real astronomy, computed live for your exact birth moment: we calculate the Moon's geocentric ecliptic longitude using the standard lunar theory (Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms), subtract the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanamsa — the official Indian government standard — and read off the sidereal position. The zodiac has 12 rashis of 30° each and 27 nakshatras of 13°20' each; the Moon's position falls in exactly one of each. Nothing is looked up from tables or generated by AI.
Why do you need the birth time, not just the date?
The Moon moves about 13° per day — it crosses a whole nakshatra in roughly a day. Two babies born on the same date, morning and evening, can have different nakshatras. If you don't know the exact time, enter your best estimate: if the Moon was anywhere near a boundary we show both candidates and tell you.
Is this the same as my zodiac / star sign?
No. The "star sign" most people know in the West is the Sun sign, set by birth date alone. The Vedic naming tradition uses the Moon sign (Janma Rashi) and the Moon's nakshatra, which is why the exact time matters. We show the Western label too, so you can see both.
What if the birth was close to a nakshatra boundary?
We tell you honestly. If the Moon was within about a third of a degree of a boundary (roughly ±40 minutes of birth-time uncertainty), the result shows both nakshatras with both syllable sets. For a definitive call in a boundary case, a panchang or jyotishi using your exact birth place can confirm — the Moon's parallax from a specific location on Earth can shift its apparent position slightly.
Where do the name suggestions come from?
From our database of 152,000+ names with real government birth-registry popularity data from 25+ countries. A name matches when its first syllable is one of the sounds prescribed for the nakshatra pada — the exact same rule and the same syllable table used by our Astro Filters and our rashi/nakshatra name pages, so results are always consistent across the site.
Which ayanamsa do you use?
Lahiri (Chitrapaksha), the standard adopted by the Indian government calendar reform committee and used by most panchangs. Other ayanamsas (Raman, KP) differ by fractions of a degree, which only matters in boundary cases — which we flag anyway.