Kashmiri Baby Girl Names with Meanings

Kashmiri parents often name a daughter after the valley's goddesses and women saints, the poet-queen Habba Khatoon, or the gardens and saffron fields of Kashmir. Kashmiri is written in a Perso-Arabic script, and Pandit families also use Devanagari, so each name is shown in the script its families use. Here are Kashmiri baby girl names with their meanings.

1. Names of Goddesses and Saints

Sharika is worshipped on Hari Parbat above Srinagar and Ragnya Devi at the spring of Kheer Bhawani in Tulmulla. Kashmir was once called Sharada Desh, the land of Sharada. Lalla, Lal Ded, sang her vakhs in the fourteenth century, and Rupa Bhawani was a Pandit saint-poet of the seventeenth.

Names For Girls

Name	Meaning
Sharika	The goddess Sharika of Hari Parbat (शारिका)
Bhavani	The goddess, as Kheer Bhawani of Tulmulla (भवानी)
Sharda	Saraswati; Kashmir was Sharada Desh (शारदा)
Lalla	Darling; after Lal Ded, the mystic poet (लल्ला)
Rupa	Beauty, form; after the saint Rupa Bhawani (रूपा)
Vitasta	The Vedic name of the Jhelum, Kashmir's river (वितस्ता)
Kashmira	Of Kashmir (कश्मीरा)

2. Names from Kashmir's Gardens

Habba Khatoon, the sixteenth-century poet-queen, was born Zoon, the moon. Kashmiri poems sing of the Mughal gardens by the Dal lake, among them Nishat Bagh, and of kongposh, the saffron flower.

Names For Girls

Name	Meaning
Zoon	The moon; the birth name of Habba Khatoon (زوٗن)
Kongposh	The saffron flower (کونگ پوش)
Nishat	Joy; after the Nishat Bagh garden (نشاط)
Nargis	The narcissus flower (نرگس)
Yasmeen	Jasmine (یاسمین)
Shabnam	Dew (شبنم)

3. Classic Kashmiri Pandit Names

These names were common among Kashmiri Pandit women. Kamala Nehru and her daughter Indira came from Kashmiri Pandit families.

Names For Girls

Name	Meaning
Kamla	The lotus; a name of Lakshmi (कमला)
Indira	A name of Lakshmi (इंदिरा)
Girija	Born of the mountain, Parvati (गिरिजा)
Prabha	Light, radiance (प्रभा)
Shanta	Peaceful, calm (शांता)
Arundhati	The faithful wife of the sage Vasishtha (अरुंधती)

4. Classic Kashmiri Muslim Names

These Persian and Arabic names were heard in Kashmiri homes through the twentieth century and are still loved.

Names For Girls

Name	Meaning
Zeenat	Adornment, beauty (زینت)
Mahjabeen	One whose forehead shines like the moon (مہ جبین)
Mahtab	Moonlight (مہتاب)
Rubina	Like a ruby (روبینہ)
Tabassum	A smile (تبسم)
Saima	One who fasts (صائمہ)

5. Modern Kashmiri Girl Names

Modern Kashmiri Muslim families favour short Arabic names with a clear meaning.

Names For Girls

Name	Meaning
Insha	Creation (انشا)
Iqra	Read, the first word revealed of the Quran (اقرا)
Mehvish	Like the moon (مہوش)
Noor	Light (نور)
Hiba	A gift (ہبہ)
Aliya	Exalted, sublime (عالیہ)
Anam	Creation, all living beings (انعم)
Sana	Brilliance; praise (ثنا)
Mehak	Fragrance (مہک)