Kuhu

In the epics

Kuhu appears in the Mahābhārata as a deity: Eighth daughter of Angiras.

Source: Drimigo Scripture KG (CC BY 4.0). Many characters share a name across the epics — this is one notable figure who bore it, not a claim about the name's only meaning.

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Song of the cuckoo; sweet melodious bird”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Piyu — Sweet, cuckoo
• Kunjal — Cuckoo bird; melodious singer
• Kokila — Cuckoo bird, sweet-voiced
• Kokilabai — Cuckoo bird lady, sweet voiced woman
• Kokilavani — Voice of the cuckoo bird
• Kadambari — A cuckoo, name of a novel, Goddess Saraswati

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

Kuhu 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.