Sujan

Classical Sanskrit origin

सुजन (sujana): a good or virtuous or kind or benevolent person (man or woman; often confounded with -).

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 “a good or virtuous or kind or benevolent person (man or woman; often confounded with -)”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Shiv — n. auspicious, propitious, gracious, favourable, benign, kind, benevolent, friendly, dear ( ind. kindly, tenderly)
• Mythri — Meanings families give: Friendship, benevolence; Friendship, friendly, benevolent
• Nallasivam — Good Shiva, the benevolent
• Satvik — Pure, virtuous and of pure and noble nature
• Sunitha — Well-conducted, virtuous, good guidance
• Anindita — Meanings families give: Beautiful, faultless; Virtuous, praiseworthy, blameless; Blameless, virtuous; one beyond reproach; Without blemish, praiseworthy

More boys' names of Bengali / Sanskrit origin

• Sayan — Meanings families give: Evening; the beautiful twilight hour; Evening, beloved
• Aritra — Meanings families give: Navigator, guide; One who shows the path, navigator
• Rituraj — ‘the king of the seasons’, the spring
• Mrinmoy — Meanings families give: Made of earth; Made of clay; earthen; humble
• Ratan — Meanings families give: Jewel, precious gem, priceless treasure of the earth; Jewel, gem; precious one

Where this comes from

Sujan'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.