Entry № 9255 · Sanskrit origin

Sarojini Sarojini — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ sah-ROH-jee-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Lotus (Nightingale of India)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Modern (Sanskrit)

A name that means "lotus (nightingale of india)".

Sarojini (सरोजिनी) is from the Sanskrit saroja ("lotus") with the feminine suffix. Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949) was the "Nightingale of India" — Indian independence activist, poet, and orator. Close associate of Gandhi, Nehru, and Jinnah.

Featured on Indian postage and currency.

Lotus (Nightingale of India) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

सरोजिनी
Transliteration
Sarojinī
Pronunciation
/ səˈroʊ.dʒi.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sarojini stands.

Sarojini 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.

Sarojinis before her.

Real people
Sarojini Naidu
Indian independence activist, first female Governor.
1879 – 1949
In fiction
Sarojini
Indian historical novels.

Names connected to Sarojini.

The number behind Sarojini.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Sarojini reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.