Prasenjit
Origin
Bengali
Syllables
3
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
"a king of the epics"; from Prasenajit, a historical king of Kosala in the 6th century BCE and a contemporary and patron of the Buddha
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890srare in US records2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Prasenjit has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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