Given name & surname · also Telugu
Balaji
“honorific”
Balaji is a surname from Telugu, ultimately from Tamil.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Balaji comes from Telugu, and ultimately from Tamil.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2000. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Balaji through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2000
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2000. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,845 as a first name in 2020; 1,933 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Balaji’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Balaji
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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