What does the name Indulekha mean?

Indulekha means "Moon-like, beautiful as moonlight". It is a girl's name of Malayalam origin.

What is the classical Sanskrit origin of Indulekha?

इन्दुलेखा (indulekhā): a digit of the moon, per the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).

Indulekha

Indulekha means Moon-like, beautiful as moonlight.

Gender	girl
Origin	Malayalam
Language	Malayalam
Starts with	I

Classical Sanskrit origin

इन्दुलेखा (indulekhā): 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 “Moon-like, beautiful as moonlight”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Maira — Beloved, moonlight, admirable
Sini — Pure, clear, moonlight
Nila — Blue, moon, river of moonlight
Chandni — Moonlight, moonbeam
Jyotsna — Moonlight, glowing, luminous
Mehtab — Moon, moonlight

More girls' names of Malayalam origin

Anaswara — Eternal, indestructible
Fathima — Daughter of the Prophet, one who abstains
Athira — Quick, fast, swift like lightning
Mariam — Beloved, bitter sea, Kerala Christian
Aleena — Noble, soft, delicate, silky
Ayisha — Alive, prosperous, wife of Prophet

Where this comes from

Indulekha'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.