Type two names. We map each to a moon sign the classical way (first syllable, Avakahada table), score the four kootas that depend on moon sign alone, and tell you plainly which 21 of the 36 points a name cannot give you. No scary verdicts, no remedy sales pitch.
Known as naam se kundli milan, name match making, name matching for marriage or salavali by name. Same idea, one honest limit: the name is a proxy for the moon sign, and it is right only when the name was chosen by nakshatra.
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Traditional naming in many Indian families follows the birth nakshatra: the first syllable of the child's name is taken from the syllables assigned to the moon's nakshatra pada at birth. That is the Avakahada chakra. Name matching runs this backwards. It reads the first syllable of your name, looks up which nakshatra owns that syllable, and treats the resulting moon sign as yours.
The method is honest about one thing and quiet about another. It is honest that it is a lookup, not a chart. It is quiet about the fact that the lookup is only correct when the name was actually chosen this way. Names picked for a grandparent, a film, a meaning or simply because the parents liked the sound give a moon sign that has nothing to do with the birth. That is a large share of people born after about 1980.
Four of the eight kootas depend on the moon sign only: Varna (1 point), Vashya (2), Graha Maitri (5) and Bhakoot (7). Those 15 points we score with the same rules as our full 36-guna tool, including the classical Bhakoot cancellations that most calculators leave out. The other four, Tara (3), Yoni (4), Gana (6) and Nadi (8), depend on the exact nakshatra. A name gives a nakshatra only by assumption, so we show those rows as "needs birth details" instead of inventing a number. If another site shows you a 36-point score from names alone, it has guessed 21 of those points.
Three things: date of birth, time of birth as close as anyone remembers, and the town of birth. With those, the real moon nakshatra is computed from an ephemeris, all eight kootas are scored, and the doshas that quick calculators flag are checked against their cancellation rules. Our 36-guna tool does this free, in the browser, and the names you typed here carry across.
Want the longer explanation of why name matching is a guess? Read Matchmaking by name: why kundli matching by name is a guess. For what a low score means and what cancels, see Is 18 gunas enough? and Nadi dosha cancellation.
Only partly. The moon sign is guessed from the first syllable of the name, which is correct only when the name was chosen by birth nakshatra. For many modern names the guess is wrong. Treat it as a first look, not a verdict.
Fifteen: Varna, Vashya, Graha Maitri and Bhakoot. The remaining 21 (Tara, Yoni, Gana, Nadi) need the exact nakshatra.
In Devanagari, dental Ta (the usual one in names) belongs to Tula and retroflex Ta belongs to Simha. English spelling cannot tell them apart, so we pick the usual one and let you switch if you were told otherwise at birth.
No. A low name score is a reason to get the birth details, nothing more. The heaviest points, Nadi and Bhakoot, both have classical cancellations, and the real chart often changes the picture completely.