Entry № 4544 · Sanskrit origin

Indu Indu — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ IN-doo /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Moon, droplet"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "moon, droplet".

Indu (इन्दु) is the Sanskrit word for "moon" — also referring to a bright droplet, such as a dewdrop.

Indu is widely used in India.

Moon. The Sanskrit bright droplet.

The name in its native script.

इन्दु
Transliteration
Indu
Pronunciation
/ ˈɪn.duː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Indu stands.

Indu 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.

Indus before her.

Real people
Indu Malhotra
Indian Supreme Court judge.
born 1956
In fiction
Indu
Common in Indian films.

Names connected to Indu.

The number behind Indu.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Indu reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.