What does the name Nagaraj mean?

Nagaraj means "King of serpents, Shiva". It is a boy's name of Kannada origin.

What is the classical Sanskrit origin of Nagaraj?

नागराज् (nāgarāj): serpent-king, per the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).

Nagaraj

Nagaraj means King of serpents, Shiva.

Gender	boy
Origin	Kannada
Language	Kannada
Starts with	N

Classical Sanskrit origin

नागराज् (nāgarāj): serpent-king.

Source: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), a public-domain scholarly reference — not every popular name today traces to a classical dictionary entry, so this section only appears where a verified match exists.

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “King of serpents, Shiva”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Manasa — Mind, intellect, goddess of serpents
Nagarjun — King of serpents, Buddhist philosopher
Nagarajan — King of serpents, Shiva
Nagnath — Lord of serpents, Shiva at Aundha
Nagendra — King of serpents, Shiva
Nagesh — Lord of serpents, Shiva

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

Nagaraj's etymology is verified against Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899). 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.