Entry № 3507 · Sanskrit origin

Gajapati Gajapati — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ GAH-jah-PAH-tee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Elephant-lord / Puri king"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "elephant-lord / puri king".

Gajapati is from the Sanskrit Gajapatī.

Elephant-lord / Puri king — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

गजपति
Transliteration
Gajapatī
Pronunciation
/ ˌɡɑː.dʒɑːˈpɑː.ti /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Gajapati stands.

Gajapati does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Gajapatis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Gajapati Puri Odisha kings Jagannatha / dynasty 1434-1541 Kapilendra Kalinga / Purushottama-Deva 1467-1497 Sarvanga-Sundari Aparjita Sri-Kalpa-Lata Prema-Prakasha-Shastra / Pratapa-Rudra 1497-1540 Chaitanya 1486-1534 / Rathayatra Ashadha-Shukla-Dvitiya Puri / Cherā-Panhara Chariot Sweeper / Ganesha
Sanskrit elephant-lord ruler-of-elephants + gaja elephant + pati lord + Gajapati Puri-Odisha-kings Jagannātha + Gajapati-dynasty 1434-1541 Kapilendra-Deva Kalinga-Odisha + Puruṣottama-Deva 1467-1497 Sarvāṅga-Sundari + Aparjita-Prasnottara + Śrī-Kalpa-Latā + Prema-Prakāśa-Śāstra + Pratāparudra-Deva 1497-1540 Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1486-1534 + Rathayātrā Ashadha-Shukla-Dvitīyā Puri Jagannātha-Rath-Yatra + Gajapati-Mahārāja Cherā-Panhārā + Ganesha
Gajapati Puri

Names connected to Gajapati.

The number behind Gajapati.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Gajapati reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.