Manoj

Classical Sanskrit origin

मनोज (manoja): ‘m-born’ love or the god of love.

Source: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), a public-domain scholarly reference — not every popular name today traces to a classical dictionary entry, so this section only appears where a verified match exists.

Traditional associations

In Hindu tradition, names are sometimes chosen by the baby's rashi (moon sign) or nakshatra (birth star). This is cultural tradition, not a rule. Traditional rashi (by first letter, as commonly listed in this corpus) — not a personalized astrological reading, and not the same as the traditional first-syllable (akshara) method some families use.

• Rashi: Simha
• Nakshatra: Magha
• More names starting with M

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “‘m-born’ love or the god of love”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Madhav — Meanings families give: Sweet one, born in spring, a name of Lord Krishna; Born in spring, Krishna; Lord Krishna, sweet as honey
• Shreeja — Meanings families give: Goddess Lakshmi, auspicious birth; Born of prosperity, Goddess Lakshmi
• Sreeja — Meanings families give: Goddess Lakshmi, auspicious; Born of Lakshmi, prosperity
• Neeraj — Lotus, born from water, pure
• Sanjana — Meanings families give: Gentle, goddess of creation; Gentle, harmonious, born together; Soft-natured, gentle, creator; Gentle, harmonious, creator
• Kia — Born with the gift

More boys' names of Sanskrit / Sanskrit-Malayalam / Sanskrit-Telugu origin

• Rohith — Meanings families give: The rising sun, red; Red, ascending, the first light; Red, first ray of sun, salmon
• Hari — yellow or reddish brown or green (the colour)
• Praveen — Meanings families give: Skilled, expert; Expert, skilled; Skilled, expert, proficient
• Anil — air or wind

Other names under Simha rashi

• Lavanya — beauty, loveliness
• Krishna — (with or without ) the dark half of the lunar month from full to new moon
• Surya — the wife of the god
• Lakshay — Target, aim, goal
• Harshil — Joyful, happy
• Misha — Sweet like nectar, joyful

Traditional association, recorded because families use it when choosing — see all Simha names.

Where this comes from

Manoj's etymology is verified against Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899). 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.