Indian Baby Names Starting with N

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N names are mostly short and mostly for girls in this catalog. Naina means eyes, Nisha is the night, Navya is new, Nishka is a gold coin or ornament, and Nandini is the one who brings joy, and in the epics it is the name of the sage Vasishtha's wish-granting cow. Nitara is glossed as deeply rooted, and its guide explains how much of that the dictionary supports.

For boys, Nikhil means complete or whole, and Neil is the Indian use of a Sanskrit word for dark blue that happens to coincide with an unrelated Irish name. Nivaan is a modern coinage without a documented root, and Naira, used across Urdu-speaking families, is usually associated with brightness without a settled derivation.

All of these begin with न, and the syllable tables assign न to Vrishchik, corresponding to Scorpio. The n itself is dental in Hindi, made with the tongue against the teeth, which is slightly forward of the English n.