Given name

Gajanan

Gajanan is a masculine given name from Sanskrit.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Gajanan comes from Sanskrit.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Gajanan’s family of names

In English usage, Gajanan has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form गजानन.

Walk Gajanan’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.

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Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

People named Gajanan

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Similar names

If you love Gajanan, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.

Sanskrit

Anirvan

“un-”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Sanskrit

Anirban

“un-”

No U.S. birth series

99% boys · 1% girls

Sanskrit

Amshuman

“light, radiance”

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Sanskrit

Ganapati

Ganapati is a masculine given name from Sanskrit.

No U.S. birth series

92% boys · 8% girls

Sanskrit

Gopala

Gopala is a masculine given name from Sanskrit.

No U.S. birth series

98% boys · 2% girls

Sanskrit · Royal

Rehalan

“Ruler, King of the whole existence”

No U.S. birth series

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Sanskrit

Vardhaman

Vardhaman is a masculine given name from Sanskrit.

No U.S. birth series

>99% boys

Sanskrit

Raghunandan

Raghunandan is a masculine given name from Sanskrit.

No U.S. birth series

98% boys · 2% girls

Sibling ideas

Names that share Gajanan’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.

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