What does the name Raj mean?

Raj means "King, ruler and sovereign". It is a unisex name of Sanskrit-Punjabi origin.

What is the classical Sanskrit origin of Raj?

राज् (rāj): (nom. ) a king, sovereign, chief (in later language only ifc.), per the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).

Raj

Raj means King, ruler and sovereign.

Gender	unisex
Origin	Sanskrit-Punjabi
Language	Punjabi
Starts with	R

Classical Sanskrit origin

राज् (rāj): (nom. ) a king, sovereign, chief (in later language only ifc.).

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, ruler and sovereign”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Yograj — King of yoga, sovereign of spiritual discipline
Naresh — King of men, the human lord and sovereign
Vaibhavraj — King of prosperity, the sovereign lord of all wealth
Suresh — God of gods, ruler of all
Eeshan — Lord Shiva, the supreme ruler and divine lord
Satish — Lord of truth, ruler of hundred

More unisex names of Sanskrit-Punjabi origin

Ravinder — Sun of the gods, lord of the sun
Rupinder — Beautiful as a god, lord of beauty
Parminder — Supreme god, lord of all lords
Devinder — Lord of the gods, king of divinity
Inder — King of the gods, like Indra
Nirmal — Pure, without blemish and spotless

Where this comes from

Raj'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.