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Naamkaran · the naming syllable

The sound a baby's name begins with

The Moon's place at that minute fixes the syllable the name begins with. Everything is computed in your browser. The date and time of birth are never sent to us.

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Date of birth

When was the baby born?

Date of birth, as on the birth record.

How this is worked out

From the Moon to the syllable

The Moon's sidereal longitude at the minute of birth (Lahiri ayanamsa) fixes the nakshatra and its quarter, the pada. Each of the 108 padas has a naming syllable, the naamakshar. The names offered begin with that syllable, matched on the Devanagari sound, not a Latin letter.

The birthplace changes the answer only through its clock: it sets the time zone at the birth date. Everything is computed in this browser, with the same engine and the same sourced name list as the ProperPandit app. The only thing sent is the place name you type into the place search.

And the harder truth. We can't cite a classical text for the 108-syllable table at all. What we have is traditional, widely used, and source-conflicted — agreement among modern almanacs whose lineages we traced. Not one of them cites scripture for it. So we will not sell you this table as ancient. The honest label is the one above. The tradition is real. The citation is missing. Both are true.