Entry № 360 · Sanskrit origin

Akshaja Akshaja — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ahk-SHAH-jah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Diamond / thunderbolt-born"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "diamond / thunderbolt-born".

Akshaja is from the Sanskrit Akṣajā.

Diamond / thunderbolt-born — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

अक्षजा
Transliteration
Akṣajā
Pronunciation
/ əkˈʃɑː.dʒə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Akshaja stands.

Akshaja does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Akshajas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Vajra Indra Vritra Rigveda 1.32 / Dadhichi bones / Vajrapani Vajrayana
Sanskrit diamond thunderbolt-born + akṣa + ja born + Vajra diamond-thunderbolt Indra Dadhichis-bones + Rigveda 1.32 Indra-Vritra + Vajrapāṇi Mahayana + Vajrayāna Diamond-Vehicle Tibet
Vedic + Buddhist

Names connected to Akshaja.

The number behind Akshaja.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Akshaja reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.