Dasaraju as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Dasaraju

What is the meaning of the name Dasaraju ?

The baby name Dasaraju is a Male name , 4 syllables long and is pronounced /dɑsəˈrɑdʒu/ — DAH-sah-RAH-joo.

Dasaraju is Indian in Origin.

Dasaraju is a South Indian (especially Telugu) name derived from Sanskrit dāsa (devotee, servant of God) and rāja (king), passing through Telugu as rāju “king.” As a compound, Dāsarāju conveys “devotee-king,” “king among devotees,” or leadership grounded in service and piety - a meaning shaped by the bhakti tradition’s emphasis on humility before the divine. Pronounced DAA-sah-raa-joo, it appears with diacritics as Dāsarāju.

The name is well attested as a Telugu surname across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana - most commonly in communities historically using the honorific Raju - and occasionally adopted as a given name for boys in contemporary South India and the diaspora. Related or shortened forms include Dasu and Raju; variant spellings include Dasaraaju and, in scholarly transliteration, Dāsarāju. Cognate or thematically linked names built on dāsa include Dasappa, Dasaiah, and Dasan. While sometimes confused with Sanskrit daśa (“ten”), the standard interpretation here is devotional rather than numeric.

⚙ Dasaraju is vanishingly rare. We hold just 11 recorded uses of it, from 5 countries.