Entry № 7897 · Sanskrit origin

Padmaja Padmaja — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ pahd-MAH-jah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Lotus born (Padmaja Naidu - Sarojini Naidu's daughter + WB Governor)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "lotus born (padmaja naidu - sarojini naidu's daughter + wb governor)".

Padmaja is from the Sanskrit padma (पद्म — lotus) + jā (जा — born). Founded the All India Women's Conference Hyderabad branch (1929), co-founded the Indian National Congress Hyderabad branch (1921), and was imprisoned multiple times during the Quit India Movement (1942). Vice Chairman of the Indian Red Cross Society. Author of biographies of her mother Sarojini Naidu and of Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park in Darjeeling (founded 1958) is named in her honor.

Lotus born (Sanskrit).

The name in its native script.

पद्मजा
Transliteration
Padmajā
Pronunciation
/ pɑːdˈmɑː.dʒə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Padmaja stands.

Padmaja 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.

Padmajas before her.

Real people
Padmaja Naidu
Governor of West Bengal + Sarojini's daughter.
1900 – 1975
In fiction
Padmaja
Sanskrit lotus born.

Names connected to Padmaja.

The number behind Padmaja.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Padmaja reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.