Entry № 759 · Sanskrit origin

Anuja Anuja — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ah-NOO-jah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Younger sister"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "younger sister".

Anuja is from the Sanskrit Anujā.

Younger sister — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

अनुजा
Transliteration
Anujā
Pronunciation
/ əˈnuː.dʒə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Anuja stands.

Anuja 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.

Anujas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Sanskrit kinship / Anuja Chandramouli
Sanskrit younger sister + anu- after + jā born + Mahabharata + Ramayana familial-relationship + Indian family-hierarchy + Anuja Chandramouli Indian author
Sanskrit kinship

Names connected to Anuja.

The number behind Anuja.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Anuja reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.