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Indian baby names starting with H

We publish 15 names beginning with H — 9 boys', 5 girls' and 1 unisex. Every one is listed with the Devanagari spelling our transliteration engine produces and the Chaldean root number of its full spelling, and with its meaning where we have verified one against a citable source.

Below the lists: how these names distribute across the Chaldean root numbers, and which nakshatra syllables their opening sounds belong to.

15 names 9 boys' 5 girls' 1 unisex 7 root numbers 4 verified meanings

The 15 names

Devanagari from our transliteration engine; the number is the Chaldean reduction of the spelling shown.

Boys' names starting with H

9 names, alphabetically.

NameDevanagariChaldean rootMeaning
Hansraj हंस्रज 9 ♂ Mars —
Harender हरेंदेर 2 ☽ Moon —
Hari हरि 9 ♂ Mars Vishnu
Hariom हरियोम 2 ☽ Moon —
Harish हरिश 8 ♄ Saturn —
Harpal हर्पल 2 ☽ Moon —
Harsh हर्ष 7 ♆ Neptune joy, pleasure, delight
Hemant हेमंत 6 ♀ Venus winter, cold season
Himanshu हिमांशु 3 ♃ Jupiter moon

Girls' names starting with H

5 names, alphabetically.

NameDevanagariChaldean root
Heena हीना 3 ♃ Jupiter
Hema हेमा 6 ♀ Venus
Hemlata हेम्लता 5 ☿ Mercury
Himanshi हिमंशि 7 ♆ Neptune
Hina हिना 3 ♃ Jupiter

Unisex names starting with H

1 name the corpus records as used for either.

NameDevanagariCompound number
Harpreet हर्प्रीत 32

A blank meaning is one we have not verified against a citable source. We would rather leave the cell empty than fill it with a plausible guess.

Chaldean root numbers under H

Every name above reduced by the Chaldean method — how the letter actually distributes, counted rather than asserted.

RootRuling planetNamesFields traditionally favoured
Root 2 ☽ Moon 3 Hospitality, Diplomacy, Wellness
Root 3 ♃ Jupiter 3 Education, Publishing, Wisdom-focused brands
Root 5 ☿ Mercury 2 Media, SaaS / Tech, Communication
Root 6 ♀ Venus 2 Luxury, Fashion, Beauty
Root 7 ♆ Neptune 2 Research, Spirituality, Independent consulting
Root 9 ♂ Mars 2 Defence, Sports, Surgery
Root 8 ♄ Saturn 1 Banking, Insurance, Real estate

Where names starting with H sit in the Avakahada chakra

The chakra is a table of 108 syllables, not of letters — it is the opening sound that places a name, so one letter can spread across several birth stars.

Opening syllableNamesNakshatraRashi
Ha 8 🏹 Punarvasu · pada 3 Mithuna
Hi 4 🏹 Punarvasu · pada 4 Karka
He 3 🪷 Pushya · pada 2 Karka

Traditionally the table runs the other way: a pandit reads the birth star and pada from the janam kundli and hands the family a syllable to start the name with. The birth chart is the authority, not the name. This is the reverse lookup, useful once you already have a name in mind.

Questions parents ask about names starting with H

How many Indian baby names starting with H does Naam Dekho publish?

15 — 9 boys', 5 girls' and 1 unisex. Each has its own page carrying the name in ten Indian scripts, its Chaldean reading and its short forms. The list is what our corpus actually holds and it grows as the corpus does; nothing is padded to make the letter look fuller.

Which nakshatra do names starting with H belong to?

The letter does not decide it — the opening sound does. Names on this page open on Ha, Hi and He, which the Avakahada chakra places in Punarvasu and Pushya. A child's actual birth star comes from the Moon's position in the janam kundli, not from the spelling of a name.

Do all names starting with H share the same numerology number?

No. Chaldean numerology values every letter of the spelling, not just the first: H is worth 5, and the rest of the name decides the total. The 15 names here fall across 7 different root numbers — 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 — so two names beginning with H can carry completely different readings.

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The letters either side of H

Every letter we publish. A letter gets a page once the corpus carries 12 names under it; until then its names sit in the full index

The 7 Chaldean root numbers these names carry

Name pages — the name in ten Indian scripts, its full Chaldean reading, the birth star its first sound belongs to, and the short forms families use