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Saroja name meaning

“lotus; born in a lake”

Letters
6
Syllables
3
First letter
S
Origin
Sanskrit
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1950s: 16.9%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s9.6%
1950s16.9%
1960s11.8%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: SMeaning flowersSanskrit origin

Saroja is a girl's name from Sanskrit meaning 'lotus'.

What does Saroja mean?

Lotus; born in a lake

In Malay: teratai; lahir dalam kolam

#Flowers#Water

Sources (2)

About the name Saroja

Saroja is the Sanskrit word for lotus, combining saras meaning water with ja meaning born from. In Hindi the form Saroj is a girl's name. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1950s with 961 baby girls.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginSanskrit
SyllablesSa-ro-ja
First letterIndian Names starting with S
Devanagari scriptसरोज

Saroja in official JPN data

1940s
Girl: 198 · 9.6%
1950s
Girl: 961 · 16.9%
1960s
Girl: 840 · 11.8%
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 Saroja 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. Wiktionary: सरोज · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Behind the Name: Saroja · behindthename.com · meaning

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