Indian Baby Names Starting with P

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P gives Indian naming some of its most affectionate words. Priya is dear or beloved, Prem is love, and Priyanshi is a modern compound usually read as built on the same root. Pooja is worship, Padma is the lotus and Padmini a lotus pond, Pranav is the sacred syllable Om and Pranavi its feminine form. Parth is Arjun's epithet as the son of Pritha, and Prachi is the east.

Two of the shortest names here are the most recent. Pari is Persian for a fairy and has become one of the most common girl names in North India. Pihu is an affectionate Hindi name that imitates a bird's call, and Pakhi is the Bengali word for a bird. Prisha is widely used but has no documented root; its guide says so.

Several P names begin with the cluster pr, as in Priya, Prem, Pranav and Prachi. English speakers tend to insert a vowel and say pi-riya; the Hindi pronunciation runs the two consonants together. Every name on this page begins with प, which the rashi tables assign to Kanya, corresponding to Virgo.