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Vijaya name meaning

“victory”

Letters
6
Syllables
3
First letter
V
Origin
Sanskrit
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♀ Girl
Peak 1960s: 7.6%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s7.6%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: VMeaning victorySanskrit origin

Vijaya is a name from Sanskrit meaning 'victory'.

What does Vijaya mean?

Victory

In Malay: kemenangan

#Victory

Sources (1)

About the name Vijaya

Vijaya is a Sanskrit name meaning victory. It is used for both men and women in several Indian languages, and JPN records it here as a girl's name. According to JPN, 544 baby girls were given the name in the 1960s.

Gender♀ Girl
OriginSanskrit
SyllablesVi-ja-ya
First letterIndian Names starting with V

Vijaya in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Girl: 544 · 7.6%
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 Vijaya 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: Vijaya · behindthename.com · meaning

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