Nujum

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Stars, Mappila Muslim poetic name”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Karthikeyan — Son of Krittika stars, Murugan
• Parveen — Star, cluster of stars
• Krithik — Son of Kritika stars, another name for Kartikeya
• Vibhavari — Starry night, full of stars
• Kavitha — Poetry, a poem, poetic woman
• Kaavya — Poem, poetic

More boys' names of Malayalam origin

• Ayyappan — Lord Ayyappa, divine son of Shiva and Vishnu
• Mohammed — Praised, the Prophet; prominent Mappila name
• Mathew — Gift of God, prominent Kerala Christian name
• Thomas — Twin, Kerala Syrian Christian foremost name
• Joseph — God increases, prominent Kerala Christian name
• Sreejith — Victorious

Where this comes from

Nujum 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.