Entry № 5697 · Sanskrit origin

Lajja Lajja — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LAHJ-jah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Modesty / Lajja Gauri"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "modesty / lajja gauri".

Lajja is from the Sanskrit Lajjā.

Modesty / Lajja Gauri — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

लज्जा
Transliteration
Lajjā
Pronunciation
/ ˈlɑːdʒ.dʒə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lajja stands.

Lajja 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.

Lajjas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Lajja Gauri fertility goddess / Taslima Nasrin Lajja 1993
Sanskrit modesty bashfulness sacred-shame + Lajjā Gaurī Mother-Goddess ancient fertility iconography ~1st-6th c. + headless-figure with lotus-head + South-India sites + Taslima Nasrin Lajja 1993 Bengali novel
Hindu fertility

Names connected to Lajja.

The number behind Lajja.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lajja reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.