Indurekha
Indurekha means The crescent moon, moon line.
| Gender | girl |
| Origin | Sanskrit |
| Language | Hindi |
| Starts with | I |
Classical Sanskrit origin
इन्दुरेखा (indurekhā): 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.
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: Kark
- Nakshatra: Ashlesha
- More names starting with I
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “The crescent moon, moon line”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Chandralekha — Crescent moonbeam
- Kaladhara — One who holds the crescent moon, Shiva
- Valarpirai — Waxing crescent moon
- Shashirekha — Line of moon, crescent line
- Rekha — Line, streak, art
- Surekha — Beautiful line, auspicious
More girls' names of Sanskrit origin
Other names under Kark rashi
- Priya — Beloved, dear one, darling
- Divyansh — Divine part, a sacred portion of the supreme divine
- Disha — Direction, path, guiding light
- Ganesh — Lord of all beings, elephant-headed god
- Khushi — Happiness, joy
- Devansh — Part of God, divine fraction and heavenly portion
Traditional association, recorded because families use it when choosing — see all Kark names.
Where this comes from
Indurekha'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.