What does the name Ranjit mean?

Ranjit means "affected, moved, charmed, delighted". It is a unisex name of Marathi / Punjabi / Sanskrit origin.

What is the classical Sanskrit origin of Ranjit?

रञ्जित (rañjita): affected, moved, charmed, delighted, per the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).

Ranjit

Ranjit means affected, moved, charmed, delighted.

Meaning: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).

Gender	unisex
Origin	Marathi / Punjabi / Sanskrit
Language	Hindi / Marathi / Punjabi
Starts with	R

Classical Sanskrit origin

रञ्जित (rañjita): affected, moved, charmed, delighted.

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 “affected, moved, charmed, delighted”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Harshita — gladdened, delighted, charmed, pleased
Harshitha — Happy, joyful, delighted
Nandita — n. rejoiced, delighted
Farhan — Meanings families give: Happy, joyful; Happy, joyful; delighted
Nanditha — Happy, joyful, delighted
Ranjitha — Meanings families give: Delighted, pleased, coloured; Pleased, delighted, pleased with colour

Where this comes from

Ranjit'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.