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Indian baby names starting with P

We publish 35 names beginning with P — 16 boys', 14 girls' and 5 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.

35 names 16 boys' 14 girls' 5 unisex 9 root numbers 22 verified meanings

P in Devanagari

Roman spelling hides the vowel length that Devanagari writes out. Our transliteration engine opens these names on 2 different aksharas.

प34 names फ1 name

The 35 names

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

Boys' names starting with P

16 names, alphabetically.

NameDevanagariChaldean rootMeaning
Pankaj पंकज 9 ♂ Mars lotus
Pappu पप्पु 4 ♅ Uranus —
Pardeep पर्दीप 6 ♀ Venus —
Parmod प्रमोद 8 ♄ Saturn joy, delight, happiness
Parth पर्थ 2 ☽ Moon a name of Arjuna; son of Pritha
Pawan पवन 3 ♃ Jupiter air, breeze, wind
Pintu पिंतु 6 ♀ Venus —
Piyush पियुश 6 ♀ Venus —
Pradeep प्रदीप 6 ♀ Venus lamp, light
Prakash प्रकाश 4 ♅ Uranus light
Pramod प्रमोद 8 ♄ Saturn joy, delight, happiness
Prashant प्रशांत 2 ☽ Moon peaceful, calm
Praveen प्रवीण 5 ☿ Mercury skillful, proficient, adept; able
Prince प्रिंके 6 ♀ Venus —
Punit पुनित 6 ♀ Venus —
Puran पूर्ण 4 ♅ Uranus complete, whole, entire

Girls' names starting with P

14 names, alphabetically.

NameDevanagariChaldean rootMeaning
Pari परि 3 ♃ Jupiter fairy; angel
Parwati पर्वति 5 ☿ Mercury —
Payal पायल 5 ☿ Mercury an anklet
Pinki पिंकि 8 ♄ Saturn —
Pinky पिंक्य 8 ♄ Saturn —
Pooja पूजा 6 ♀ Venus worship, veneration
Poonam पूनम 5 ☿ Mercury the night or day of the full moon
Preeti प्रीति 7 ♆ Neptune affection (a feeling of strong love or attachment)
Preety प्रीति 7 ♆ Neptune affection (a feeling of strong love or attachment)
Priti प्रीति 7 ♆ Neptune affection (a feeling of strong love or attachment)
Priya प्रिया 4 ♅ Uranus beloved, dear one
Priyanka प्रियंका 3 ♃ Jupiter —
Puja पूजा 7 ♆ Neptune worship, veneration
Pushpa पुश्पा 4 ♅ Uranus —

Unisex names starting with P

5 names the corpus records as used for either.

NameDevanagariChaldean rootMeaning
Paramjeet परंजीत 4 ♅ Uranus —
Parkash प्रकाश 4 ♅ Uranus light
Parveen पर्वीन 5 ☿ Mercury —
Phool फूल 3 ♃ Jupiter flower
Prem प्रेम 1 ☉ Sun love

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 P

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

RootRuling planetNamesFields traditionally favoured
Root 4 ♅ Uranus 7 Construction, Engineering, Manufacturing
Root 6 ♀ Venus 7 Luxury, Fashion, Beauty
Root 5 ☿ Mercury 5 Media, SaaS / Tech, Communication
Root 3 ♃ Jupiter 4 Education, Publishing, Wisdom-focused brands
Root 7 ♆ Neptune 4 Research, Spirituality, Independent consulting
Root 8 ♄ Saturn 4 Banking, Insurance, Real estate
Root 2 ☽ Moon 2 Hospitality, Diplomacy, Wellness
Root 1 ☉ Sun 1 Leadership, Politics, Entrepreneurship
Root 9 ♂ Mars 1 Defence, Sports, Surgery

Where names starting with P 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
Pa 12 🌞 Uttara Phalguni · pada 3 Kanya
Pu 6 ✋ Hasta · pada 1 Kanya
Pi 4 🌞 Uttara Phalguni · pada 4 Kanya

13 further names beginning with P open on a sound the 108 syllables do not carry, so they are not in this table.

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 P

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

35 — 16 boys', 14 girls' and 5 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 P belong to?

The letter does not decide it — the opening sound does. Names on this page open on Pa, Pu and Pi, which the Avakahada chakra places in Uttara Phalguni and Hasta. 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 P share the same numerology number?

No. Chaldean numerology values every letter of the spelling, not just the first: P is worth 8, and the rest of the name decides the total. The 35 names here fall across 9 different root numbers — 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 — so two names beginning with P can carry completely different readings.

How is a name starting with P written in Hindi?

Not always the same way. These names open on 2 different Devanagari aksharas — प (34) and फ (1) — because Devanagari writes the vowel length that roman spelling only hints at. Every name page shows the full spelling in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi and Odia.

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The same letter split by gender — each page groups its names by Chaldean root

The letters either side of P

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 9 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