Tanuja as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Tanuja

What is the meaning of the name Tanuja ?

The baby name Tanuja is a girl name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced tuh-NOO-jah.

Tanuja is Hindi, Sanskrit in Origin.

Tanuja is an Indic feminine name from Sanskrit तनुजा, transliterated Tanujā. Its earliest recoverable form is the Sanskrit adjective and noun tanu-jā, built from tanu, body, person, or one’s own form, and the suffix -ja, born or produced, from the verbal root jan, to be born. Literally, it signifies born from the body; in ordinary naming use it is understood as child, offspring, or daughter. The long final ā marks the feminine form, while Tanuja is the common unmarked Roman spelling.

The name circulates chiefly in Hindu and broader Indian naming, especially in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, and other Sanskrit-influenced languages. Tanuj is the masculine counterpart, and spellings such as Tanujah or Tanujaa reflect attempts to show the final vowel in English. Public visibility in modern India owes much to film figures including actress Tanuja Samarth and director Tanuja Chandra. In the United States it is rare, appearing in Social Security data only sporadically, with five recorded female births in 1971.