Entry № 11294 · Sanskrit origin

Vijaya Vijaya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ vee-JAH-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Victory (Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit - first female UN GA President)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Sanskrit)

A name that means "victory (vijaya lakshmi pandit - first female un ga president)".

Vijaya is from the Sanskrit vijaya (विजय — victory, conquest). Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Sarup Kumari Nehru, 1900-1990) was an Indian diplomat and politician — sister of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and aunt of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Governor of Maharashtra (1962-1964).

Victory (Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit - first female UN GA President) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

विजया
Transliteration
Vijayā
Pronunciation
/ viːˈdʒɑː.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Vijaya stands.

Vijaya 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.

Vijayas before her.

Real people
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
First woman UN GA President + Indian diplomat.
1900 – 1990
In fiction
Vijaya
Sanskrit victory.

Names connected to Vijaya.

The number behind Vijaya.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vijaya reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.