Baishakhi

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Of the month Baishakh; Bengali New Year”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Luipa — Ancient Bengali Buddhist tantric poet; pure one
• Kartik — Brave, son of Shiva, the month
• Chaitra — First month of Hindu calendar
• Ashwina — Born in Ashwin month, horse tamer
• Shravani — Born in Shravan month, moonlit
• Chaitali — Born in the spring month of Chaitra

More girls' names of Bengali origin

• Meghna — The river Meghna; cloud-river of Bengal
• Shiuli — Night jasmine flower; fragrant autumn bloom
• Tanushree — One with a beautiful body; graceful woman
• Oishee — Divine, of God; belonging to the divine
• Doyel — The Oriental Magpie Robin; national bird of Bangladesh
• Rimjhim — Sound of light rain; pitter-patter of monsoon

Where this comes from

Baishakhi has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. 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.