Entry № 7959 · Sanskrit origin

Pankaja Pankaja — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PAHN-kah-jah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Lotus / mud-born"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "lotus / mud-born".

Pankaja is from the Sanskrit Paṅkajā.

Lotus / mud-born — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

पङ्कजा
Transliteration
Paṅkajā
Pronunciation
/ ˈpɑːn.kə.dʒə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pankaja stands.

Pankaja 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.

Pankajas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Bhagavad Gita 5:10 / Pankaja-nayana Vishnu
Sanskrit mud-born lotus + paṅka mud + jā born + lotus rising-pure-from-mud + Bhagavad Gita 5:10 padmapatram ivāmbhasā + Paṅkaja-nayana lotus-eyed Vishnu-Krishna + Pankaja Munde Maharashtra BJP
Hindu lotus

Names connected to Pankaja.

The number behind Pankaja.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pankaja reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.