Thyagaraj
Thyagaraj means King of sacrifice, devotion.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Kannada |
| Language | Kannada |
| Starts with | T |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “King of sacrifice, devotion”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Yagna — Meanings families give: Sacrifice, holy fire ritual; Holy fire, sacred offering
- Yajas — Fame through sacrifice, glorious
- Tyag — Sacrifice, renunciation, giving
- Yagnesh — Meanings families give: Lord of yagna, Vishnu; Lord of sacrifice; fire deity; Lord of sacrifices; Agni
- Nisar — Sacrifice, one who sacrifices, Malabar Muslim
- Yajur — The Yajur Veda, sacred knowledge of sacrifice
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
Thyagaraj 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.