Rajendra
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘an Indra among kings’, hence ‘mighty king’, ‘emperor’
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/ɹɑːdʒɛndɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Rajendra is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In India it is the 28th most common given name.
- KWKuwait≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 21K
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 31K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- #471 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 293 (measured from records)
- 1 in 873 (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,500 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Sanskrit: ‘an Indra among kings’, hence ‘mighty king’, ‘emperor’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Rajendra counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Rajendra | 86 |
| US United States | — | 3,051 | 1 in 109K | 3K | Rajendra | 293 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Rajendra | 28 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #553 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Rajendra | 55 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #984 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Rajendra | 23 |
| GY Guyana | — | 859 | 1 in 873 | 859 | — | 1 |
| QA Qatar | #265 | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Rajendra | 18 |
| KW Kuwait | #498 | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Rajendra | 19 |
| BH Bahrain | #233 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Rajendra | 7 |
| IN India | #28 | — | — | 1.2K | Rajendra | 281 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Rajendra is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
lord of kings; emperor. a Cakravartin. Raje$vara (S) (M) lord of kings.
as a nameThe Penguin book of Hindu names for boys
In English, Alternative form of Rajindra (“male given name used in India”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Rajendra Chola Ib. 1000Chola emperor from 1014 to 1044
- Rajendra Prasadb. 1884INIndian statesman, lawyer and writer (1884–1963); first President of India
- Rajendra Kumarb. 1929INIndian actor (1929–1999)
- V. B. Rajendra Prasadb. 1932INIndian filmmaker
- Rajendra Pachaurib. 1940INIndian academic (1940-2020)
- Rajendra Shuklab. 1942INGujarati poet from India
- Rajendra Kishore Pandab. 1944INIndian Odia-language poet
- Rajendra Bhatiab. 1952INIndian mathematician
- Rajendra Prasadb. 1956INIndian actor
- Rajendra Singhb. 1959INIndian environmentalist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)36 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Rajendra mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘an Indra among kings’, hence ‘mighty king’, ‘emperor’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Rajendra?
- In the etymology graph, Rajender is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Rajendra?
- A machine transcription gives /ɹɑːdʒɛndɹə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Rajendra a male or female name?
- Rajendra is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026).
- In which country does Rajendra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.5 thousand people named Rajendra in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled rajendra.
- Where is Rajendra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Rajendra is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 873 people — even though Indonesia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Rajendra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,051 people named Rajendra in 2020, about 1 in 109 thousand residents.
- How common is Rajendra compared with other names?
- In India, Rajendra is the 28th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/rajendraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Rajendra” — the 28th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.