Sitara
Sitara is a girl name of Sanskrit origin, meaning Star.
What Sitara means
Star.
Sitara sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Sitara comes from
Sanskrit names draw on a devotional and literary tradition thousands of years old. Many are epithets of deities or qualities from classical texts, which is why their meanings tend to be abstract virtues rather than objects.
Sitara is recorded as Sanskrit in origin. Browse other Sanskrit names.
How popular is Sitara?
In the girl name rankings we track, Sitara falls outside the top 100. That puts it in the broad middle ground where most names live: familiar to those who know it, uncommon enough to still feel like a choice.
The character of Sitara
Two ideas meet in Sitara: Star and the stars and sky. Names carrying more than one theme tend to be the ones that suit a wider range of siblings.
Names like Sitara
These share Sitara's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Dhruv — The pole star; constant.
- Stella — Star. Shining and celestial.
- Hoshi — Star.
- Nova — New; a blazing star.
- Seren — Star.
- Soraya — The Pleiades; a star cluster.
- Stellaluna — Star and moon.
- Astra — Of the stars.
- Bituin — Star.
- Csilla — Morning star.
- Danica — Morning star.
- Dara — Star; maiden.