Entry № 10073 · Sanskrit origin

Sujata Sujata — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ soo-JAH-tah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Well-born (Buddhist Sujata milk-rice)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "well-born (buddhist sujata milk-rice)".

Sujata is from the Sanskrit सुजाता (Sujātā — well-born, of noble birth) — from Sanskrit su (good/well) + jāta (born). Sujata is one of the Sanskrit feminine names — central to traditional Hindu + Buddhist heritage.

Well-born (Buddhist Sujata milk-rice) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

सुजाता
Transliteration
Sujātā
Pronunciation
/ suːˈdʒɑː.tə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Sujata stands.

Sujata 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.

Sujatas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Sujata / Sujata Senani
Buddhist devotee who offered kheer / milk-rice to Siddhartha Gautama at Bodh Gaya ~6th c. BCE + after six years of asceticism + Gautama achieved Enlightenment + Sujata Stupa at Bakraur + Middle Path origin.
Buddhist tradition

Names connected to Sujata.

The number behind Sujata.

9

The Giver

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