By September 1944, Nehru wrote to sister Vijay Lakshmi Pandit that if the family did not decide soon, "we shall have to call [him]...the Nameless or the one with innumerable names". Nehru chose the name 'Rajiv' because it meant lotus in Sanskrit.
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