Basavaraj
Basavaraj means King among devotees of Basavanna.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Kannada |
| Language | Kannada |
| Starts with | B |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “King among devotees of Basavanna”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Yatish — Meanings families give: Lord of devotees, master of all who practice yoga; Ascetic, devotee, self-controlled
- Purushottam — Meanings families give: Best among men, Vishnu; Supreme being, Jagannath title
- Uttam — Meanings families give: Best, highest and most excellent among all; Best, excellent, supreme; Best, highest, excellent; supreme one; Best, excellent; Best, the highest and most excellent
- Ravindra — Meanings families give: Lord of the sun, the great solar deity Surya; Lord of the sun; Sun among sages, great sun; Sun of suns, mighty sun
- Purushothaman — Best among men, Vishnu
- Vijendra — Lord of victory, supreme champion among all beings
More boys' names of Kannada origin
- Puneeth — Purified, holy, sacred
- Manjunatha — Lord of the misty peaks, Shiva
- Manjunath — Lord of the misty peaks, Shiva
- Shivakumar — Son of Shiva, the young lord
- Guru — Teacher, Jupiter, spiritual guide
- Nagaraj — serpent-king
Where this comes from
Basavaraj has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.