Rashi Names in Hindi and English: The Complete Chart

The twelve rashi names in Hindi and English map one-to-one onto each other – Mesh is Aries, Vrishabh is Taurus, Mithun is Gemini, Kark is Cancer, Simha is Leo, Kanya is Virgo, Tula is Libra, Vrishchik is Scorpio, Dhanu is Sagittarius, Makar is Capricorn, Kumbh is Aquarius, and Meen is Pisces. That naming correspondence has held for centuries – it's the same twelve-fold zodiac wheel, described in Sanskrit on one side and in the Greek-derived English names on the other. What trips families up is that the person sitting under "Aries" on a Western horoscope and the person sitting under "Mesh" on a Vedic one are often not the same person at all, even with an identical birth date. There's a reason for that, and it matters more than the naming chart does – but first, the chart everyone actually came here for.

The Complete Rashi Names Chart: Sanskrit/Hindi to English

Here's the full mapping, along with the ruling planet (graha) for each sign, since that's usually the second thing people want once they've matched the name.

A few of these are worth flagging on their own because they trip people up in search. Kark (कर्क) is Cancer, not "Karka," which some transliterations use for the same sign. Vrishchik (वृश्चिक) is Scorpio, also written Vrishchika. And Meen (मीन) – the one this article gets asked about most, thanks to searches like "meen rashi in english" – is simply Pisces, the fish sign, last in the zodiac wheel and ruled by Jupiter.

Why the Same Name Doesn't Always Mean the Same Person

Picture a horoscope printed by a family astrologer that lists the boy as Vrishchik rashi, while his matrimony profile – filled in casually, or pulled from a Western astrology app – calls him Scorpio. The names match, so it feels safe to assume the chart underneath matches too. It usually doesn't.

Western astrology is tropical: it fixes Aries to the spring equinox point every year, regardless of where the actual constellations currently sit. Vedic astrology is sidereal: it anchors the zodiac to the constellations themselves. Because the Earth wobbles slowly on its axis – a roughly 26,000-year cycle called precession – the two systems have drifted apart by close to 24 degrees since they were both set up in antiquity. That drift is called the ayanamsa.

The practical effect: someone born under the tropical Western sign of Aries is, in most cases, sitting in the sidereal Vedic sign of Meen or late Mesh, depending on exactly where in the month they were born. A person a Western app confidently labels "Taurus" may well turn out to be a Vedic Mesh. This is exactly why searches like "taurus and meen rashi compatibility" exist – people are trying to reconcile a Western label from one source with a Vedic one from another, for the same person or for two people being compared for marriage.

None of this means the chart above is wrong – Mesh really is Aries, as a label. It only means you can't assume a Western sun sign someone mentions casually is automatically their correct Vedic rashi for matching purposes. For anything that actually carries weight – Ashtakoot scoring, Manglik status, Nadi checks – you need the sidereal placement worked out from the exact birth time and place, not a guess based on the Western sign.

Spelling Variants You'll Run Into

Sanskrit terms get transliterated into English more than one way, and priests, apps and matrimony sites aren't always consistent about which spelling they use. Knowing the common variants saves you from mistaking a spelling choice for a different sign:

• Vrishabh / Vrishabha – both are Taurus.
• Simha / Singh – both are Leo (Singh is the more colloquial Hindi form).
• Tula / Thula – both are Libra.
• Vrishchik / Vrishchika / Vrishika – all Scorpio.
• Kumbh / Kumbha – both Aquarius.
• Dhanu / Dhanus – both Sagittarius.

None of these are separate rashis. If a horoscope report or a match's profile uses a spelling you haven't seen before, check it against the chart rather than assuming a mismatch.

Using This Chart to Check Compatibility

Once you know which English sign lines up with which Hindi rashi, the natural next step for most families is compatibility – and this is where the naming actually starts to matter for a real decision. Vedic matching doesn't stop at the rashi (moon sign) level; it runs through the Ashtakoot system of 36 gunas, where the rashi feeds directly into the Bhakoot koota, one of the eight, and separately through nakshatra-level checks like Gana, Yoni and Nadi that look at the finer 27-star division within each rashi.

You don't need to convert names by hand before checking a pair, either. Our free Kundli matching tool takes birth details directly and works out the correct sidereal rashi, nakshatra and full Ashtakoot score itself – so whether you know a match by their Hindi rashi or their Western sign, you enter the actual birth date, time and place and let it calculate the real placement instead of relying on a label someone typed into a profile.

Check any rashi pair

Whether you know a match as Vrishabh or as Taurus, as Meen or as Pisces, you can check the real compatibility, not just the name, with rashi compatibility, or run the complete free report with all 36 gunas on the Kundli matching tool.