Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Sanskrit गणपति, built from Sanskrit गण + पति.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Ganapati’s family of names
In English usage, Ganapati has a conventional equivalent in the Hindi form गणपति.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
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 Ganapati
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Ganapati, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Abhati
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80% boys · 20% girls
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>99% boys
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>99% boys
Gopala
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98% boys · 2% girls
Kandasamy
“Skanda, Kartikeya”
99% boys · 1% girls
Adinata
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>99% boys
Ajatshatru
Ajatshatru is a masculine given name from Sanskrit.
>99% boys