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Rajendran name meaning

“lord of kings”

Letters
9
Syllables
3
First letter
R
Origin
Sanskrit · Tamil
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Malayalam scriptരാജേന്ദ്രൻ
Peak 1960s: 8.6%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s8.6%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: RMeaning royaltySanskrit origin

Rajendran is a male name from Sanskrit meaning 'lord of kings', from raja and Indra.

What does Rajendran mean?

Lord of kings

In Malay: tuan segala raja

#Royalty#Leadership

Sources (3)

About the name Rajendran

Rajendran is a Tamil/Malayalam-style form of Rajendra, combining rāja 'king' and Indra, the name of a Hindu god used here in the sense of 'lord'; together meaning lord of kings. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1960s with 711 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginSanskrit, Tamil
SyllablesRa-jen-dran
First letterIndian Names starting with R
Malayalam scriptരാജേന്ദ്രൻ

Rajendran in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Boy: 711 · 8.6%
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Rajendran as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Indian table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Behind the Name: Rajendra · behindthename.com · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: राजा · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: इन्द्र · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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