Entry № 7301 · Sanskrit origin

Nayantara Nayantara — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ nah-YAHN-tah-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Star of the eye"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "star of the eye".

Nayantara is from the Sanskrit Nayanatārā.

Star of the eye — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

नयनतारा
Transliteration
Nayanatārā
Pronunciation
/ nəˈjɑːn.tə.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Nayantara stands.

Nayantara does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Nayantaras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Nayantara Sahgal niece of Nehru / Nayanthara Tamil actress
Sanskrit star-of-the-eye pupil-of-the-eye beloved + nayana eye + tārā star pupil + Sanskrit poetic + Hindu bhakti-poetry + Nayantara Sahgal niece of Jawaharlal Nehru + Nayanthara 1984- Tamil South-Indian actress
Hindu + Indian cinema

Names connected to Nayantara.

The number behind Nayantara.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Nayantara reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.