Entry № 8266 · Sanskrit origin

Prajakta Prajakta — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ prah-JAHK-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Night-jasmine (Krishna's Parijata tree)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "night-jasmine (krishna's parijata tree)".

Prajakta is from the Sanskrit प्राजक्ता (Prājaktā — night-flowering jasmine) — variant of Parijata. Prajakta is one of the Sanskrit feminine names — central to traditional Hindu mythological heritage.

Night-jasmine (Krishna's Parijata tree) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

प्राजक्ता
Transliteration
Prājaktā
Pronunciation
/ prəˈdʒɑːk.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Prajakta stands.

Prajakta 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.

Prajaktas before her.

Real people
Prajakta Koli
Indian YouTuber + actress + MostlySane ~7 million subscribers + pioneering Indian women's digital content.
born 1993
In fiction
Parijata / Night-Jasmine
Sacred Hindu tree + Samudra Manthan churning of ocean + Krishna-Satyabhama narrative + Bhagavata Purana 10.59 + national flower of West Bengal Shewli / Shefali.
Bhagavata Purana

Names connected to Prajakta.

The number behind Prajakta.

6

The Nurturer

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