Nakshatra

This app allows you to calculate the appropriate Nakshatra/Pada for a given birth date, time and location and list names suitable for the syllables corresponding to the selected Pada.

About Nakshatra:
Hindu astrologers teach that when a child is born, they should be given an auspicious first name which will correspond to the child's Nakshatra. The technique for deducing the name is to see which nakshatra the moon is in at the moment of birth; this gives four possible sounds.

A refinement is to pick one sound out of that four that relates to the Pada or division of the Nakshatra. Each Nakshatra has four Padas and four sounds and each Pada is of equal width. The Moon remains in each Nakshatra for approximately one day.