Did You Know the Beautiful Meanings Behind These Celebrity Baby Names?

Kalki Koechlin gave birth to her baby girl, Sappho, with her boyfriend Guy Hershberg. It is believed that their daughter is named after the famous Greek poet, whom she also quoted in her Instagram post with her baby.

Soha Ali Khan and Kunal Kemmu named their daughter 'Inaaya', which in Arabic means 'gift from God' or 'one to behold'.

Shilpa Shetty recently had her second baby, Samisha, through surrogacy. She also revealed that the 'Sa' in 'Samisha' means 'to have' in Sanskrit, while 'Misha' in Russian stands for 'someone like God'.

While Shahid and Mira named their first child 'Misha', which is a combination of the alphabets from their name, they named their son 'Zain', which means beauty and grace.

A name of Indian origin, 'Nitara' means 'having deep roots' or 'deeply rooted'. It is also believed that the actor added 'Khanna' to his daughter's last name, as a way to pay respect to his father-in-law, late Rajesh Khanna.

Sunny Leone revealed that 'Nisha' refers to the Hindu goddess of night. While her middle name 'Kaur' is Sunny's real last name, her sername 'Weber' comes from Sunny's husband, Daniel Weber.

While a 14th century's Turco-Mongol conqueror and the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia went by the name Timur, the word 'Taimur' means iron. As a controversy arose around the name during the time of his birth, Saif and Kareena clarified that their son's name wasn't inspired by any person, living or dead.

Shahrukh Khan explained that 'AbRam' is a Jewish connotation of Hazrat Ibrahim, along with the name of the Hindu god 'Ram' present in it as well.

It is believed that 'Vamika' is the Sanskrit name for Goddess Durga. The name primarily denotes power, strength, success and prosperity.

Inspired from the Hebrew name 'Sarrah', 'Saira' means princess.

While the name 'Mehr' has multiple origins—Arabic, Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Muslim, Punjabi—it primarily means 'blessing'.

Arjun Rampal had his first baby boy with girlfriend Gabriella Demetriades, and the couple decided to name him 'Arik'. In Sanskrit, the name 'Arik' means 'ruler of rulers'.

The Sanskrit meaning of the name 'Aaradhya' is 'first one' or 'to be worshiped'.

The meaning of Hritik's first son's name, 'Hrehaan' is 'God's chosen one', while 'Hredhaan' means 'one with a big heart'.