Baby boys' names starting with B: 63 Indian names with meanings

Indian baby boys' names starting with B

B names lean devotional — Bhakti, Bhavesh, Balaji — and carry a strong Krishna and Balarama thread through the north and west.

There are 63 here, each printed with its meaning and its Devanagari spelling where we hold one. Families usually arrive at a letter for one of three reasons: the birth nakshatra's pada suggests a syllable, a grandparent's name begins with it, or the family simply likes how it sounds with the surname.

Every name comes from our verified name corpus — the editorial workbooks our team maintains, cross-checked against United States birth-registration data. Names we hold no meaning for are left out rather than padded in, which is why this list is shorter than the ones that scrape a dictionary.

Boys' names starting with B (1-60)

63 names, each with the meaning our corpus records for it.

Boys' names starting with B (61-63)

Choosing between them

Say the shortlist with the surname, out loud, several times. A name that is lovely alone can be unsayable in full, and the full version is what a teacher will read from a register.

Fix the spelling before you register the birth. Romanised Indian names have several accepted spellings — the one on the birth certificate has to match the school record, the passport and the Aadhaar that follow it, and correcting them later is genuinely painful.

If your family follows the panchang, the birth nakshatra's pada decides the traditional syllable. Our birth star calculator gives the star, the pada and its syllable from the date and time of birth — start there, then look for a name on this page that fits.

And check the short form and the initials, because those are what the child will actually be called.

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