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Ashtakoota compatibility when birth time is unknown
Free, with no sign-up and no birth time: spell each name as it is spoken, or in Devanagari.
Type both first names above; the score, both birth stars and all eight kootas arrive here.
Enter two first names to estimate their birth Nakshatras and calculate the traditional 36-point Gun Milan score. It works best when the names were chosen from Namakaran syllables.
Know both dates of birth? Use Kundli matching by date of birth and name for the actual Moon positions, Manglik checks and chart context.
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Nadi carries eight points while Varna carries one. Two matches with the same total can therefore tell very different traditional stories.
Traditional work and ego temperament.
Mutual influence and attraction.
Birth-star harmony and fortune.
Physical and intimate compatibility.
Mental rapport through Moon-sign lords.
Temperament under everyday pressure.
Spacing between the two Moon signs.
Constitutional type and Nadi Dosha.
The total is the sum of eight independent tests, and two couples with the same total can fail completely different ones. These are what each test is reading, and what a low score in it traditionally indicates.
Groups the twelve Rashis into four classes — Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra — by element. It scores when the groom's class is equal to or above the bride's. It is the lightest test on the sheet and the one most often over-read: a zero here costs one point out of thirty-six and is not, by itself, a reason to hesitate.
Reads mutual influence through five traditional groupings — quadruped, human, aquatic, wild and insect. A pair whose signs sit in the same group scores in full. This is a question of who tends to lead in a disagreement rather than of affection, and it is measured from the Rashi, so it is inherited whole from the inferred Nakshatra.
Counts the distance between the two birth stars in both directions and reduces each count by nine. Odd remainders are the difficult Taras — Vipat, Pratyak and Naidhana. This is the first Koota where an inferred Nakshatra genuinely matters: a birth star off by one moves the count and can turn a full three into a zero.
Assigns an animal to each of the 27 Nakshatras and scores the pair from a fixed matrix, from identical (4) down to natural enemies (0). It is read as physical and temperamental compatibility. Like Tara it is a direct function of the Nakshatra, so it carries the whole uncertainty of a name-based inference.
Compares the lords of the two Moon signs — friendship, neutrality or enmity between the two planets. This is the mental-rapport test, and the one astrologers most often keep when they discard the total. It moves with the Rashi rather than the Nakshatra, so it is the more robust half of a name-based reading.
Sorts the Nakshatras into Deva, Manushya and Rakshasa temperaments. Same Gana scores six; Deva with Rakshasa scores zero. It describes behaviour under everyday pressure rather than character, and a zero here is conventionally read alongside Bhakoot rather than on its own.
Measures the spacing between the two Moon signs. The 6-8, 9-5 and 2-12 spacings score zero and are the single largest deduction on the sheet. Because it is computed from the Rashi, it is one of the two tests a name-based match can state with reasonable confidence.
Divides the 27 Nakshatras into Adi, Madhya and Antya constitutional types. The same Nadi for both scores zero — the classical Nadi Dosha — and takes eight points out at once. It is the heaviest test, the one most often cited as a reason to stop, and the one most sensitive to an inferred birth star being wrong.
Conventionally read as a weak match. In practice this is almost always Bhakoot, Nadi or both scoring zero, since between them they carry fifteen of the thirty-six points. Before treating a low total as a verdict, look at which two tests produced it — a 17 from eight small deductions is a different situation from a 17 with Nadi Dosha in it.
The band the tradition treats as workable. Most matched pairs land here. The number on its own says very little at this level; the individual Kootas, and whether a birth time exists to check them against, say considerably more.
Read as a strong traditional match. Nadi and Bhakoot have both scored, which is what a total in this range almost always means. It is still a Moon-based reading: it has not looked at either Lagna, at Mangal Dosha, or at the dashas running for either person.
Rare, and worth treating with the same caution as a low score. A near-perfect total from two inferred Nakshatras usually means both names mapped to the same or adjacent stars, which is as likely to be an artefact of the spelling as a finding about the couple.
The calculator reads the first spoken Akshara, not the whole name or its numerology total.
Namakaran tables assign one naming sound to each of the 108 padas. Common Roman vowel spellings are normalised; Devanagari remains exact.
The inferred Nakshatra and Moon sign are passed to the same Ashtakoota calculation used by the birth-detail matcher.
Some English spellings stand for two Hindi letters — द or ड, त or ट, न or ण — and the classical table gives thirteen naming sounds to more than one birth star. Rather than pick one silently, the calculator asks which the family uses, and shows the 36-point score each answer gives, so you can see how much the choice changes before you make it.
A name that does not open on any of the hundred naming sounds is not turned away. The calculator offers the sounds on the name's own first letter, then every naming sound, and scores the one you choose — and the result says the sound was chosen by you rather than read from the spelling.
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The whole method assumes the first syllable was chosen from the Nakshatra pada the Moon occupied at birth. A name chosen for a grandparent, for its meaning, or for how it sounded carries no birth star at all — and nothing in the spelling reveals which of these happened.
The classical table reuses syllables, so a single opening sound can point at two or three birth stars. This calculator asks rather than picking silently, which is what an astrologer would do; but the answer is then the reader's recollection, not a calculation.
"Cha" and "Chha" are different Aksharas that belong to different Nakshatras and are routinely written the same way in English. Entering the name in Devanagari removes this whole class of error, and is worth doing whenever the spelling is known.
Mangal Dosha, the two Lagnas, the seventh house and its lord, and the dashas both people are running are all absent from a name-based match, because none of them can be inferred from a Rashi. When both birth times exist, the birth-detail matcher reads all of them.
In the Namakaran ceremony a child is named beginning with the sound assigned to the Nakshatra pada the Moon occupied at birth. The name therefore carries the birth star. All eight kootas are read from the Nakshatra and the Rashi that follows from it, so no birth time is needed once the Nakshatra is known.
It is an estimate based on the assumption that both names were chosen from traditional Nakshatra syllables. The calculator cannot verify that history from a spelling. When birth details are known, use them to calculate the actual Moon positions instead.
Yes. When both dates of birth are known, use Kundli matching by date of birth and name, linked under the form above. The names label the two charts; the dates, birth times and places give each person's actual Moon, Nakshatra and Lagna, the Mangal Dosha check and both D1 and D9 charts. The score card here can carry your two names into it.
It can. Classical Gun Milan scores four kootas with the groom's chart first: Varna, Vashya, Gana and, in two pairings of birth animals, Yoni. Swapping the names can therefore change those kootas and the total, so enter the groom's name in the first box.
Yes. Matching by name is free and needs no login, and the two names are used for this one calculation and not saved. The full match by birth details is free too.
Yes. The same calculation, with every koota explained in Hindi, is on the Hindi page नाम से कुंडली मिलान, reached from the language menu at the top of this page.
Thirteen of the hundred naming sounds are claimed by more than one Nakshatra, because the classical table reuses them. Rather than pick one silently, you are asked — which is what an astrologer would do.
Birth details, whenever you have them. The full comparison reads the actual Moon rather than the Moon the name implies, and it can also weigh Mangal Dosha and the wider chart. Matching by name is for when the birth time was never recorded.
Out of 36, an 18 or above is conventionally treated as workable and 24 and above as strong. The number is a summary, not a verdict — the individual kootas, and Nadi in particular, usually matter more to an astrologer than the total.
A name that opens on a conjunct (Priya, Shreya, Kriti) is read under its first letter with the vowel it carries. Some astrologers read it with a plain “a” instead (Priya as “Pa”); when that reading gives a different score, the result shows it and lets you use it. If a name still cannot be placed, the calculator asks which naming sound it was given under and offers the sounds of its first letter. Choose one only if you know it; otherwise use birth-detail matching or the recorded birth Nakshatra instead of forcing a score.
Once the kundlis are matched, the next question is the date. The next vivah muhurat is Saturday, 21 November 2026 (times for New Delhi). Every date by month, with its window, nakshatra and lagnas:
