Basavaraj
Basavaraj means King among devotees of Basavanna.
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Kannada |
| Language | Kannada |
| Starts with | B |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “King among devotees of Basavanna”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Narottam — Best among men, Vishnu
- Purushothaman — Best among men, Vishnu
- Vijendra — Lord of victory, supreme champion among all beings
- Purushotam — Best among men, the supreme and perfect person
- Shivendra — Lord of Shiva, the most divine among all divine ones
- Kaviraj — King of poets, the supreme master among all poets
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
- Guru — Teacher, Jupiter, spiritual guide
- Nagaraj — King of serpents, Shiva
Where this comes from
Basavaraj 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.