Hindu Marriage Biodata Format for a Girl and a Boy

Most Hindu biodata formats online have rows for gotra, rashi, nakshatra and manglik, and leave you to work out what goes in them. The short answer: fill them in from your horoscope, called a kundli, keep only the rows your family actually uses, and know that some families don't use a kundli at all.

Below are two complete formats in English, one for a girl and one for a boy. They're plain text, so they paste straight into Word or Google Docs, and they work as a biodata without a photo. Jump to the girl's format, the boy's format, a blank one, the steps for Word, or how to fill in the kundli rows. If you'd rather read about formats in Hindi, there's a Hindi format guide (in Hindi).

Hindu marriage biodata format for a girl, written by her parents

Neha's parents wrote this one, so it's in the third person all the way through. Her family compares kundlis, so every horoscope row is filled in.

॥ श्री गणेशाय नमः ॥

PERSONAL DETAILS
Name: Neha Verma
Date of Birth: 21 January 1999
Age: 27
Height: 5 ft 2 in
Marital Status: Never married
Mother Tongue: Hindi
Native Place: Unnao, Uttar Pradesh
Current Location: Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh

EDUCATION & CAREER
Education: M.Sc. Chemistry, CSJM University, Kanpur (2021)
Occupation: Quality control chemist at a leather goods exporter, Kanpur
Annual Income: ₹6 to 7 lakh per annum

FAMILY DETAILS
Father: Rajiv Verma, runs a stationery wholesale business
Mother: Kavita Verma, teaches Hindi at a government inter college
Siblings: One younger brother, final year of B.Com
Family Background: The family has lived in Kanpur for two generations. The ancestral home is in Unnao.

RELIGION & HOROSCOPE
Religion: Hindu
Gotra: Kashyap
Time of Birth: 5:20 AM
Place of Birth: Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Rashi: Kumbh
Nakshatra: Shatabhisha
Manglik: No

ABOUT NEHA
Neha tests leather samples before they're shipped, which means most of her day is in the lab and some of it on the factory floor. She has been with the same company since 2021. At home she's the one who plans every family trip and keeps everyone to the timetable. She reads Hindi novels, cooks most Sundays and has recently started learning the sitar. She would like to keep working after marriage, and she's open to moving cities for the right family.

PARTNER PREFERENCES
Age: 27 to 32
Education: Postgraduate preferred
Profession: Working professional
Kundli matching: Required
Location: Open

CONTACT
Phone: 98XXXXXX45 (father, Rajiv Verma)
Email: verma.family@example.com

A biodata can open with ॥ श्री गणेशाय नमः ॥ (Shri Ganeshaya Namah), with ॐ, or with nothing at all. Use what your family uses.

Hindu marriage biodata format for a boy

Pradeep wrote his own, in the first person. His family speaks Kannada and lives in Mysuru, and his name is written the way many South Karnataka families write names, with initials in front. His kundli says he's manglik, so that's what the row says.

PERSONAL DETAILS
Name: H. R. Pradeep
Date of Birth: 3 April 1996
Age: 30
Height: 5 ft 8 in
Marital Status: Never married
Mother Tongue: Kannada
Native Place: Hunsur, Mysuru district
Current Location: Mysuru, Karnataka

EDUCATION & CAREER
Education: M.Sc. Botany (2019), Ph.D. (2024), University of Mysore
Occupation: Assistant Professor of Botany at a government first grade college near Mysuru
Annual Income: ₹7 to 8 lakh per annum

FAMILY DETAILS
Father: H. N. Ramesh, retired headmaster, government high school
Mother: Shobha, homemaker
Siblings: One elder sister, married, lives in Hassan

RELIGION & HOROSCOPE
Religion: Hindu
Time of Birth: 6:40 PM
Place of Birth: Mysuru, Karnataka
Rashi: Kanya
Nakshatra: Hasta
Manglik: Yes

ABOUT ME
I teach botany to undergraduates and spend most of my free time outdoors, photographing plants that nobody else stops to look at. Apart from two years of research in Bengaluru, I've always lived in Mysuru, and I'd like to stay here. My parents live with me, and that won't change after marriage. I cook simple Karnataka food well and everything else badly. I'm happy to share the housework, and I'd like my wife to work if she wants to.

PARTNER PREFERENCES
Age: 25 to 30
Education: Graduate or above
Horoscope matching: Required
Location: Should be happy living in Mysuru

CONTACT
Phone: 94XXXXXX18
Email: hr.pradeep@example.com

Two choices here are worth copying. "Manglik: Yes" sits in the list like any other row, because it's what his kundli says, and a family that compares kundlis would find out anyway. And there's no gotra row. Not every family has one or puts it on a biodata, and a biodata without one isn't missing anything.

Before either format goes out, check four rows against the kundli:

• Rashi and nakshatra, exactly as the kundli gives them, not the sign from a newspaper horoscope.
• Manglik, as the kundli says, or leave the row out.
• Time of birth, from the birth record, with AM or PM.
• Place of birth: the town where you were born, not where you live now.

The rest of a biodata is the same for everyone. For the questions each side gets asked most, like height and photos for a girl or income and property for a boy, see the formats for a girl and for a boy.

A blank Hindu biodata format

If you'd rather start from empty rows, copy this one. The hints in brackets are only on the rows people most often get wrong, so delete them as you fill it in. If the About Me box is the part holding you up, this guide to the About Me section has examples you can adapt.

PERSONAL DETAILS
Name:
Date of Birth:
Age:
Height:
Marital Status:
Mother Tongue:
Native Place: (where your family is from)
Current Location: (city and state, not your full address)

EDUCATION & CAREER
Education:
Occupation:
Annual Income: (a range, or leave this row out)

FAMILY DETAILS
Father:
Mother:
Siblings:
Family Background:

RELIGION & HOROSCOPE
Religion: Hindu
Gotra: (leave this out if your family doesn't use one)
Time of Birth: (from the birth record, with AM or PM)
Place of Birth: (where you were born, not where you live)
Rashi: (as written in your kundli)
Nakshatra: (as written in your kundli)
Manglik: (as your kundli says)

ABOUT ME

PARTNER PREFERENCES
Age:
Education:
Profession:
Location:

CONTACT
Phone: (one number you answer, and say whose it is)
Email:

If your family doesn't use a kundli, the horoscope section shrinks to this, and nothing is missing:

RELIGION
Religion: Hindu
Gotra: (only if your family uses one)

Without a kundli, your age says enough, so the date of birth can go too. There's one more finished example with every horoscope row filled in among the complete biodata examples.

Copy it into Word or Google Docs

Every format on this page is plain text, so it pastes cleanly.

On a phone:

1. Tap Copy on the format you want, open the Google Docs or Word app, start a blank document and paste.
2. Change each line to your own details, and delete the rows you don't need.
3. Use the app's menu to save or export the document as a PDF, which looks the same on every phone it's forwarded to.

On a computer, paste it into Word or Google Docs and make the section headings bold. Then save it as a PDF: in Word that's File, then Save As, then PDF, and in Google Docs it's File, then Download, then PDF.

To add a photo, or the kundli chart if your family attaches one, use Insert, then Image, in either app. If the ॥ श्री गणेशाय नमः ॥ line turns into empty boxes, the font you're using has no Hindi letters. Select the line and pick a font that does.

Rashi, nakshatra and manglik: how to fill them in

These rows come from the kundli, the horoscope worked out from your date, time and place of birth. If your family doesn't use one, skip this section. Your biodata is complete without it, and the format guide has more on deciding which of these rows to keep.

If you don't have the kundli

Ask your parents first. Some families have a janam kundli, the one made when a child is born, and it may be filed away with your birth certificate.

If there isn't one, a family pandit or an astrologer can prepare it from three things: your date, time and place of birth. A kundli app asks for the same three. Whichever you use, take the rashi, nakshatra and manglik status from the kundli you'd actually share if a family asked for it, so the biodata and the kundli never disagree.

Date, time and place of birth

Write the time exactly as the birth record has it, with AM or PM: 5:20 AM, not 5:20. The place is the town or city where you were born, which isn't always where you grew up or where you live now.

If nobody knows the time, leave it out rather than guess. A kundli made from a guessed time is a different kundli, and the families who compare them will be comparing the wrong one.

Rashi

Your rashi is one of the twelve signs, and it's written in your kundli. Copy it exactly, spelt the way your family spells it. Kumbh and Kumbha are the same rashi.

The common slip is to write the sign from a newspaper horoscope. That's a Western sun sign, worked out a different way, so it usually doesn't match your rashi. Pradeep is a good example: the newspaper puts him under Aries, and the rashi in his kundli is Kanya.

Nakshatra

Your nakshatra is the lunar mansion, one of 27 parts of the sky, that the moon was in when you were born. Copy it from the kundli like the rashi. Spellings vary here too, Shatabhisha and Satabhisha for example, so use your family's.

Manglik status

Manglik means that, by Hindu astrology, a kundli shows a particular placement of Mars (Mangal, also called Kuja). Some families look closely at this row, and others never look at it.

Write what the kundli says, whether that's Yes or No. A status written from memory, either way, is the one that causes trouble later. Some kundlis say anshik, which means partial, and if yours does, write that. Use "Not checked yet" only if it really hasn't been checked.

Leaving the row out is a choice too. If the other family compares kundlis, it will come up when they do.

Other rows your kundli may carry

Some biodatas also carry gan and nadi, two more values from the kundli that families who compare kundlis look at. If your family usually writes them, copy them from the kundli like the rest. If it doesn't, there's no need to add them.

The chart itself is a choice as well. Some families attach it to the biodata. Others write "Kundli: Available on request", which keeps the exact time and place of birth out of every forward.

Manglik: Yes
Manglik: No
Manglik: Anshik (partial)
Manglik: Not checked yet

Kundli: Available on request

Gan: (as written in your kundli)
Nadi: (as written in your kundli)

Gotra: what to write

A gotra is a family lineage, in most families passed down the father's side. If your family has one, it's a single row, spelt the way your family spells it. Many families check that the two gotras are different before a conversation goes further, which is why the row is there.

Some families also give the mother's gotra, meaning the gotra she was born into. If yours does, add a second row. A longer line about the mother's side of the family, which some families call the mosal, is covered in the family details guide.

If your family doesn't have a gotra, or never uses one, leave the row out, the way Pradeep's biodata does.

Gotra: Kashyap

Gotra: Vashishtha
Mother's Gotra: Bharadwaj

Gotra: (your gotra)

Partner preference lines

Most of what goes into partner preferences is the same for every biodata, and the partner expectations guide covers it with complete examples. A few lines come up more often on a Hindu biodata:

Kundli matching: Required
Kundli matching: Not required
Manglik: No preference
Caste: No bar

Caste is the other line people ask about. If it's a real condition for your family, one plain line says so. If it isn't, leave it out, or write "Caste: No bar" so readers know it doesn't matter. The partner expectations guide has more on telling a real condition from a preference.

Leave out anything about dowry, in any wording. That includes lines about gold, or about what a family "will give". Demanding dowry is an offence under section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961.

Making it on Marriage Profile

On Marriage Profile, these rows are in the Astrology & Culture step. Religion is a dropdown with Hindu in it. Gotra and caste are optional text rows, and both print with your personal details. Native place has its own field, called Ancestral Origin, in the Family step.

Rashi and nakshatra are dropdowns. The rashi list shows a zodiac name in brackets, such as Kumbh (Aquarius). That bracket only translates the name, so pick the rashi from your kundli, not your newspaper sign. The biodata prints the name alone, in one fixed spelling such as Kumbh or Vrishchik, so if your family spells it another way, the text formats above are the place for that.

Manglik Status has four options: Yes, No, Partial (Anshik) and Not Sure. The row prints as "Manglik", whatever your family calls it. Birth time is a time picker, so it can't say "around five". If you don't know the time, leave it empty. The birth rows appear under a heading called Astrology, and only when at least one of them is filled in. One thing to know: a date of birth, if you add one, appears under that heading even without the other rows. Age has its own field, so you can leave the date out.

There's no field for gan and nadi, a mother's gotra or "available on request". If one of those matters to you, add it to your About Me or the About Family box. The line at the top has no equivalent on the profile.

A profile photo is needed before you can publish, though a draft can be saved without one. For a biodata without a photo, the text formats on this page are the way to do it. If you'd rather your exact time and place of birth stayed with the families you choose, a private link with a view password keeps them there. Password protection is part of the paid plans.

The biodata can be read in English, Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati from the same link, and the rashi and nakshatra names read correctly in each. It can't be read in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam or Bengali, so for a family that reads one of those, the text formats above are the better start. The template gallery shows the same details in eight designs.