Anugraha
Anugraha means Divine grace, blessings, favour.
| Gender | girl |
| Origin | Sanskrit-Malayalam |
| Language | Malayalam |
| Starts with | A |
Classical Sanskrit origin
अनुग्रह (anugraha): favour, kindness, showing favour, conferring benefits, promoting or furthering a good object.
Source: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), a public-domain scholarly reference — not every popular name today traces to a classical dictionary entry, so this section only appears where a verified match exists.
Traditional associations
In Hindu tradition, names are sometimes chosen by the baby's rashi (moon sign) or nakshatra (birth star). This is cultural tradition, not a rule.
- Rashi: Mesh
- Nakshatra: Krittika
- More names starting with A
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Divine grace, blessings, favour”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Anushka — Grace, favour, lightning bolt of Indra
- Shubham — Auspicious, pure and full of good omens and blessings
- Lakhdeep — Lamp of abundance, light of countless blessings
- Lakhvinder — God of abundance, lord of countless blessings
- Lakhjinder — God of countless blessings, abundant lord
- Lakha — Abundant, of countless blessings
More girls' names of Sanskrit-Malayalam origin
Other names under Mesh rashi
- Aarav — Peaceful sound, wisdom
- Aradhya — Worthy of worship
- Arjun — Bright, shining, silver
- Aryan — Noble, of high birth
- Aadya — First, Goddess Durga
- Aarohi — Musical note, ascending
Traditional association, recorded because families use it when choosing — see all Mesh names.
Where this comes from
Anugraha's etymology is verified against Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899). Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.