Nagaraj
Nagaraj means serpent-king.
Meaning: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Kannada |
| Language | Kannada |
| Starts with | N |
Classical Sanskrit origin
नागराज् (nāgarāj): serpent-king.
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.
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “serpent-king”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Vasuki — Meanings families give: King of serpents, Naga king; Sacred serpent of Shiva, king of snakes
- Naga — Meanings families give: Serpent, divine serpent; Serpent goddess, divine snake
- Nagalakshmi — Goddess Lakshmi with serpent
- Phani — a serpent (only gen. pl. )
- Ulupi — Naga (serpent) princess, daughter of King Kauravya
- Nagaiah — One with serpent, Shiva
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
- Basavaraj — King among devotees of Basavanna
- Guru — Teacher, Jupiter, spiritual guide
Where this comes from
Nagaraj'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.