What does the name Chandralekha mean?

Chandralekha means "Crescent moonbeam". It is a girl's name of Tamil origin.

What is the classical Sanskrit origin of Chandralekha?

चन्द्रलेखा (candralekhā): = -, a digit of the moon, per the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).

Chandralekha

Chandralekha means Crescent moonbeam.

Gender	girl
Origin	Tamil
Language	Tamil
Starts with	C

Classical Sanskrit origin

चन्द्रलेखा (candralekhā): = -, a digit of the moon.

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.

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Crescent moonbeam”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Kaladhara — One who holds the crescent moon, Shiva
Valarpirai — Waxing crescent moon
Shashirekha — Line of moon, crescent line
Indurekha — The crescent moon, moon line
Rashmi — Ray of light, a moonbeam
Chandni — Moonlight, moonbeam

More girls' names of Tamil origin

Meenakshi — Fish-eyed goddess, Parvati of Madurai
Oviya — Artist, beautiful
Abirami — Goddess Lakshmi
Nandhini — Joyful girl, daughter of joy
Anandhi — Blissful
Isai — Music

Where this comes from

Chandralekha'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.